kosala kulasekara Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
kosala kulasekara is a cricketer(sportsman) from Sri Lanka. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Chamith Kosala Bandara Kulasekara
Born
July 15, 1985, Mavanalle
Age
38 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Fast medium
Playing Role
Allrounder
Height
6ft 1in
Education
Vidyartha College, Kandy
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 1 | 4 | - | - |
Inn | 2 | 3 | - | - |
Runs | 22 | 38 | - | - |
Avg | 11.0 | 12.67 | - | - |
SR | 44.0 | 52.78 | - | - |
HS | 15 | 19 | - | - |
NO | 0 | 0 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
4s | 2 | 0 | - | - |
6s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 1 | 4 | - | - |
Inn | 2 | 4 | - | - |
Balls | 168 | 78 | - | - |
Runs | 80 | 80 | - | - |
Wkt | 1 | 0 | - | - |
BBI | 65 / 1 | 6 / 0 | - | - |
BBM | 80 / 1 | 6 / 0 | - | - |
Eco | 2.86 | 6.15 | - | - |
Avg | 80.0 | 0.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Sri Lanka
- Galle Cricket Club
- Nondescripts Cricket Club
- Ruhuna
- Sri Lanka A
- Sri Lanka Academy XI
- Sri Lanka Cricket Development XI
- Sri Lanka Cricket President's XI
- Sri Lanka Under-17s
- Sri Lanka Under-19s
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
but has failed to make it count at the international level. He has played a lone Test and 4 ODIs for Sri Lanka with very little success.
He earned a call-up to the national side in 2011 on the back of some impressive all-round displays in domestic cricket. Though his hard-hitting batting hogs the limelight, he is also a nippy bowler, much like his namesake, Nuwan. His bowling truly blossomed in the 2009-10 season, where he bagged 41 scalps in the three day domestic competition. The tall Kosala has also been a crucial cog in the Ruhana machinery, more so in T20s.
Interestingly, Kosala's first love was swimming. He clinched the third place in the All Island swimming competition before switching to the gentleman's game. He progressed through age group cricket, representing Sri Lanka at the Under-17 and Under-19 levels, into the international cauldron.
Kosala though has fallen short of translating his domestic success on the big stage. The stiff competition from the likes of Thisara Perera and Nuwan Kulasekara has not helped his cause either.
By Cricbuzz Staff
As of August 2014
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Kosala Kulasekara is a big-hitting 6' 1" batting allrounder who has been a regular performer in domestic cricket for Nondescripts CC in the Premier tournament and Ruhuna in the Inter-provincial tournament. His approach to the game is more suitable for the one-day and T20 formats where he has excelled in domestic matches. In 2010 he hit a whirlwind 43 off 15 balls against Basnahira North in the inter-provincial T20 match and captured four wickets for 26 with his nippy deliveries to help Ruhuna convert a losing cause into a winning one.
Kulasekara first began as a swimmer and won third place in the all-island swimming championships and cricket was only his second love. At Vidyartha College, Kandy he learnt his cricket and showed so much promise that he was selected to captain the Central Province Under-17 and U-19 teams. He was eventually selected to play for Sri Lanka in the U-19 World Cup in 2004 where he won two Man-of-the-Match awards for his all-round ability.
After joining NCC, he was coached by former Sri Lanka cricketers Romesh Kaluwitharana and Chandika Hathurusingha who helped improve his batting technique. Kulasekara won a cricket scholarship to England in 2005 along with Upul Tharanga. He captained Sri Lanka Cricket Academy against England Academy and South Africa 'A' teams.