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Full name Ishantha Deepal Gunawardene
Born October 21, 1969, Colombo
Current age 38 years 353 days
Major teams Police Sports Club
Also known as John
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Umpire
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
Ct
St
First-class
77
120
9
1848
94
16.64
0
8
49
0
List A
26
25
1
380
45
15.83
0
0
6
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
77
7500
3852
162
7/54
23.77
3.08
46.2
5
0
List A
26
912
541
23
3/19
3/19
23.52
3.55
39.6
0
0
0
Career statistics
First-class span
1995/96 - 2004/05
List A span
1998/99 - 2004/05
Profile
Deepal Gunawardane was an outstanding sportsman at Dharmapala College Pannipitiya where he excelled at cricket as a left-hand batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler and at athletics where he clocked 11.2 seconds in the 100 metres. He continued his cricket career with Police SC representing them from 1989-2003 (captain in 1996/97) before turning his attention to becoming a cricket umpire. In the recent Premier panel examination conducted by Sri Lanka Cricket for the season ending 2006-07 Gunawardane finished as the third best in the country. Was standby umpire for the first Test between Sri Lanka and England at Kandy in 2008. Officiated in Elite Cup under 19 international tournament in Malaysia in 2007. Sa'adi Thawfeeq February 2008
