chaminda vaas Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
chaminda vaas is a cricketer(sportsman) from Sri Lanka. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas
Born
January 27, 1974, Mattumagala
Age
49 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Left arm Fast medium
Playing Role
Bowler
Education
St. Joseph's College Maradana
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 111 | 322 | 6 | 13 |
Inn | 162 | 220 | 2 | 11 |
Runs | 3089 | 2025 | 33 | 81 |
Avg | 24.32 | 13.68 | 33.0 | 10.12 |
SR | 43.92 | 72.53 | 80.49 | 110.96 |
HS | 100 | 50 | 21 | 20 |
NO | 35 | 72 | 1 | 3 |
100s | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
4s | 376 | 127 | 1 | 2 |
6s | 16 | 22 | 0 | 3 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 111 | 322 | 6 | 13 |
Inn | 194 | 320 | 6 | 13 |
Balls | 23438 | 15775 | 132 | 282 |
Runs | 10501 | 11014 | 128 | 355 |
Wkt | 355 | 400 | 6 | 18 |
BBI | 71 / 7 | 19 / 8 | 14 / 2 | 21 / 2 |
BBM | 191 / 14 | 19 / 8 | 14 / 2 | 21 / 2 |
Eco | 2.69 | 4.19 | 5.82 | 7.55 |
Avg | 29.58 | 27.54 | 21.33 | 19.72 |
5W | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
10W | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- Sri Lanka
- Asia XI
- Basnahira North
- Colts Cricket Club
- Deccan Chargers
- Hampshire
- Marylebone Cricket Club
- Middlesex
- Northamptonshire
- Worcestershire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Not the tallest, not the most astutely built and certainly not the most fearsome with his pace, Vaas over the several years of spearheading the Lankan bowling attack had developed all sorts of variations. He became synonymous with the in-dipper to a right-hander, a delivery that swung in ever so late to fox the batsman after luring him into believing that it would harmlessly go through. Add to that his conventional swing and ability to seam the ball around even on the flattest of tracks in the world. With the advent of T20s and batsmen getting innovative, he developed the off-cutter and mastered the art of getting the old ball to reverse.
And lest we forget his skills with the bat down the order. He started off in First-Class cricket as a 16-year old in 1990 and was thrust into the international scene with a mere 13 matches under his belt, barely past his teens. The impact though was instantaneous. Guiding his side to their first ever overseas win, he took a 10-fer and topped it up with 30s in either innings to beat New Zealand in Napier in 1994-95. That was merely the start of some supremely mind-boggling performances that followed. 14 wickets in a match on the placid wickets against West Indies in 2001, the first and the only man so far in the history of ODIs to grab an 8-wicket haul, two ODI hat-tricks (one of them coming in the first three balls in a World Cup match), just to name a few. Add 3000 Test runs with the bat to all that.
It barely comes as a surprise that he ended with 300 Test and 400 ODI scalps to his name. It hence was only just when he featured in the ICC World XIs in both the ODIs and the Tests in 2004-05. You do not need much of a validation when someone of the class of Aravinda de Silva calls him accurate, nagging, hard to get away.
After his retirement, he has kept himself busy around the game with his coaching assignments. He started off as the bowling coach for New Zealand in 2012, hopped loyalties to his home country in 2013 and oversaw the 2015 World Cup as a part of it. With a brief stay with Ireland during the 2016 World T20, he returned back to his loyal colours back home.
By - Vineet Anantharaman
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Chaminda Vaas is easily the most penetrative and successful new-ball bowler Sri Lanka have had, and he has served his country well. He swings and seams the ball with skill, his trademark delivery being the late indipper. However, he also bowls a carefully disguised offcutter, and has recently added reverse-swing to his armoury, a skill that has made him a consistent wicket-taker even on bland subcontinental pitches. He outbowled New Zealand's seamers in green conditions at Napier to give Sri Lanka their first win in an overseas Test, in 1994-95. In 2001-02 he made a quantum leap, taking 26 wickets in the 3-0 rout of West Indies, becoming only the second fast bowler, after Imran Khan, to take 14 wickets in a match in the subcontinent. He then went on to take the first-ever ODI eight-for, against Zimbabwe, which included a hat-trick. He also claimed a hat-trick with the first three balls of the match against Bangladesh in the 2003 World Cup. Vaas reached the 300-wicket milestone in Tests against India in 2005-06, having passed the mark in ODIs on the tour to Zimbabwe. In 2004 he also gained overdue recognition for his talent when he was selected for the World XI at the inaugural ICC Awards. Vaas is easily Sri Lanka's second-most successful bowler - after Muttiah Muralitharan - in both forms of the game. His approach to his batting is equally sincere and in recent years he has gradually gained recognition as a useful allrounder. He waited 97 Tests for his maiden century, against Bangladesh, and soon after, became the third Sri Lankan to play 100 Tests or more.
In August 2008, Vaas crossed yet another milestone when he had Yuvraj Singh caught for a duck in Colombo to get his 400th ODI wicket and become the fourth bowler to reach the landmark.
In July 2009, Vaas announced his retirement from Tests but said he will continue to play one-dayers and Twenty20s till the 2011 World Cup.