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Full name Pulasthi Waruna Gunaratne
Born September 27, 1973, Colombo
Current age 34 years 344 days
Major teams Sri Lanka,Antonians Sports Club,Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club,Nondescripts Cricket Club,Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
23
8
3
36
15*
7.20
63
57.14
0
0
5
0
3
0
First-class
86
92
18
1154
74
15.59
0
2
67
0
List A
53
28
10
149
19*
8.27
0
0
15
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
23
23
959
908
27
4/44
4/44
33.62
5.68
35.5
1
0
0
First-class
86
10882
5433
242
7/25
22.45
2.99
44.9
7
2
List A
53
2271
1830
71
4/37
4/37
25.77
4.83
31.9
4
0
0
Career statistics
ODI debut
Sri Lanka v Bangladesh at Colombo (RPS), Aug 7, 2002 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v Sri Lanka at Port Elizabeth, Mar 18, 2003 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1993/94 - 2003/04
List A span
1995/96 - 2003/04
Profile
Wisden overview
A handful with bat and ball, and for tongue-tied commentators,
Pulasthi Gunaratne was already quite a veteran of Sri Lankan
cricket by the time he made his one-day debut at the age of 28
against Bangladesh in August 2002, since he first played for
Bloomfield way back in 1993. A slippery right-arm seamer, he
demonstrated his knowhow by taking two wickets in consecutive
deliveries, including a perfect first-ball yorker to uproot Tushar
Imran's middle stump. He had been on the fringe of the senior
side for quite some time, and had been an outside bet for the
2002 England tour after impressing in an unofficial Test series
against Kenya. His batting is more effective than elegant, but
two first-class fifties hint at a man who knows which end of the
willow is which. (Andrew Miller)
