dilruwan perera Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
dilruwan perera is a cricketer(sportsman) from Sri Lanka. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Mahawaduge Dilruwan Kamalaneth Perera
Born
July 22, 1982, Panadura
Age
41 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Allrounder
Height
5ft 10in
Education
Sri Sumangala College, Panadura
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 43 | 13 | 3 | - |
Inn | 77 | 12 | 2 | - |
Runs | 1303 | 152 | 1 | - |
Avg | 18.88 | 12.67 | 0.5 | - |
SR | 46.89 | 76.38 | 16.67 | - |
HS | 95 | 30 | 1 | - |
NO | 8 | 0 | 0 | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
50s | 7 | 0 | 0 | - |
4s | 158 | 13 | 0 | - |
6s | 23 | 3 | 0 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 43 | 13 | 3 | - |
Inn | 78 | 10 | 3 | - |
Balls | 10805 | 456 | 60 | - |
Runs | 5780 | 409 | 72 | - |
Wkt | 161 | 13 | 3 | - |
BBI | 32 / 6 | 48 / 3 | 26 / 3 | - |
BBM | 78 / 10 | 48 / 3 | 26 / 3 | - |
Eco | 3.21 | 5.38 | 7.2 | - |
Avg | 35.9 | 31.46 | 24.0 | - |
5W | 8 | 0 | 0 | - |
10W | 2 | 0 | 0 | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Sri Lanka
- Basnahira South
- Chilaw Marians Cricket Club
- Colts Cricket Club
- Kandy Tuskers
- Panadura Sports Club
- Southern Express
- Sri Lanka Board XI
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Perera is known for his off-breaks and the arm-ball which he uses to deceive the batsmen in a regular manner. He used them to good effect to snap up 7 wickets for Pandura SC against Galle SC paving the way into the Sri Lanka 'A' team for the tour of England in 2007. He had a decent tour with both bat and ball and followed it up with another good 'A' tour of Zimbabwe.
A great admirer of Muttiah Muralitharan and Saqlain Mushtaq, Perera has benefited a lot under the guidance of Murali as well as the coaching imparted in the Sri Lankan spin academy under the expert guidance of Ashley Mallett and Ruwan Kalpage.
The presence of a certain Murali meant that Perera got very little opportunities to represent Sri Lanka. He was called up for the Sri Lankan squad for the inaugural T20 world cup in 2007 after Murali was injured but did not get a game. He has played a handful of ODI's without any reasonable success although he continues to remain a key player for the Colombo Colts in the domestic league. With the retirement of Murali, he was called up for the T20 series at home against Australia in 2011 and returned with impressive figures of 3/26 in the first match. But the white ball stuff has never been his forte
Dilruwan was handed his Test debut against Pakistan in the UAE in January 2014, nearly seven years after winning his maiden ODI cap. Though he could manage only one wicket with the ball, he let his bat do the talking, scoring an attritional 95 at Number 8. Dilruwan, the offie, came to the party in the next Test as he took a 5-fer with Sri Lanka registering their second largest ever Test win, mauling Bangladesh by an innings and 248 runs in Mirpur.
And then began his famed partnership with Rangana Herath. His five-wicket haul in the first innings at Galle in 2014 against Pakistan paved the way for an easy win. Lanka won that series 2-0. A 10-fer in a Test against the Aussies gave Sri Lanka the series as they took an unassailable lead in the three-match series. Perera also contributed 64 runs with the bat in the second innings, making it a game to remember. By doing so, Dilruwan Perera became the first Sri Lankan player to score a fifty (or more) and take ten wickets in a Test. He ended up picking with 15 wickets in that series.
Meanwhile he did struggle in the home and away series against India in 2017, picking up only 10 wickets from 6 games. But his offies have not only been his form of contribution for the team. His runs with the bat in tough times lower down the order has also made him a vital wicket for the opposition.
In December 2017, Dilruwan became the fastest Sri Lankan and seventh overall to take 100 Test wickets or more. He achieved the feat in his 25th game, two fewer than the great Muralitharan, who had held the record.
By Pradeep Krishnamurthy and Kumar Abhisekh Das
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
A classical offspinner with an easy, fluent action, Dilruwan Perera had been among Sri Lanka's steadiest first-class performers, before being rewarded with the second spinner's berth in the Test squad, in 2014. It was with the bat that he made his first impression in Tests: Perera came within five runs of scoring a century on debut, against Pakistan at Sharjah, but he asserted himself as a bowler soon enough. His second-innings five-wicket haul helped wipe Bangladesh out in Dhaka, less than two weeks later.
No big turner of the ball, and possessing only an arm ball as a variation, Perera's strengths lie in accuracy and persistence. He has honed those skills by practicing spot-bowling intensively, on the advice of Muttiah Muralitharan, one of Perera's idols, alongside Saqlain Mushtaq. In his time in the Test side, Perera has proved a good fit for the attack's ethos of squeezing wickets from the opposition, and he has also been a fine partner for Rangana Herath when the two bowl from opposite ends.
Perera had made rapid progress since starting his career at Sri Sumangala College, Panadura. He toured Australia with the Sri Lanka Under-19 team and, after he made his first-class debut for Panadura Sports Club, was drafted into the A side in 2001. He played one season for Chilaw Marians Cricket Club and holds the bowling record for the Under-23s with 55 wickets from seven matches in 2004.
He had had some success in A team tours to England and Zimbabwe with both bat and ball, but continued to develop as a bowler through his time at Sri Lanka's Spin Bowling Academy, where he was coached by former offspinners Ashley Mallett and Ruwan Kalpage.
In limited-overs cricket, Perera earned a call-up to Sri Lanka's squad for the ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa after Muralitharan was ruled out due to injury. He made his ODI debut at home against England in 2007. He forms an integral part of the Colombo Colts domestic side, which he has now represented for 10 years.
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