kusal perera Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
kusal perera is a cricketer(sportsman) from Sri Lanka. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Mathurage Don Kusal Janith Perera
Born
August 17, 1990, Kalubowila
Age
33 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Fielding Position
Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Wicketkeeper Batter
Height
5ft 6in
Education
Royal College, Colombo
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 22 | 116 | 63 | 2 |
Inn | 41 | 111 | 62 | 2 |
Runs | 1177 | 3237 | 1660 | 14 |
Avg | 30.97 | 30.25 | 27.67 | 7.0 |
SR | 72.25 | 92.91 | 130.71 | 107.69 |
HS | 153 | 135 | 84 | 14 |
NO | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
100s | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 7 | 17 | 13 | 0 |
4s | 151 | 362 | 152 | 3 |
6s | 12 | 52 | 55 | 0 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 22 | 116 | 63 | 2 |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Sri Lanka
- Colombo Stars
- Colts Cricket Club
- Comilla Warriors
- Cumilla Warriors
- Dambulla Aura
- Fortune Barishal
- Galle Gladiators
- Kandy Tuskers
- MI Emirates
- Rajasthan Royals
- Ruhuna
- Schools Invitation XI
- Southern Express
- Sri Lanka A
- Sri Lanka Under-19s
- Wayamba
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Perera was a regular in the Sri Lankan Under-19 teams since 2007. He, then, debuted for the Colts Cricket Club in 2009. The dashing young batsman etched his name in the Sri Lankan cricket folklore when he slammed 336 from just 275 deliveries for the Colts against Saracens at Havelock Park, Colombo. The hurricane knock, featuring 14 maximums and 29 hits to the fence, is the only triple century in the history of the domestic competition.
His short-arm jabs, pick-up hits and square cuts provoked inevitable comparisons with Jayasuriya. Much like Jayasuriya, Kusal is known to have a penchant for big runs. He carried on, scoring prolifically at the domestic circuit to bang hard on the national selectors' doors. Kusal is a handy wicket-keeper as well.
An injury to Kumar Sangakkara paved way for Perera's ODI debut in Jaunuary 2013 in Adelaide. He batted at Number 4, scoring an unbeaten 14 in a charming little cameo, seeing Sri Lanka past the finish line along with centurion, Thirimanne.
Identifying the spirit of adventure in his batsmanship, the Sri Lankan think-tank bumped him up to the top of the order in the short T20I series that followed the ODIs. Needless to say, the southpaw's pyrotechnics gave the Emerald Islanders the edge.
More success was to follow, this time in the Indian subcontinent, where Rajasthan Royals netted his services for 2013 Indian T20 League, although he was relegated to the sidelines for the bulk of the tourney.
Joining hands with Tillakaratne Dilshan, Perera has provided brief glimpses of tearing open the portal to the 1996 Jayasuriya-Kaluwitharana era. Having enjoyed a successful 2014-15 season in ODIs, Perera earned his maiden call-up for Tests in July-August 2015 against india. He compiled half-centuries in both innings on his debut and became only the second Sri Lankan to do so.
Tragedy struck late in 2015 with a failed dope test, where his urine sample tested positive for a banned substance - forcing the SLC to pull him out of all future tours. His future looked in dismay when he tested positive for a performance enhancing drug, 19-Norandrostenedione in both his 'A' and 'B' samples. However with his board backing him to the hilt, he underwent ploygraphic tests to prove his innocence and came out with success. Not before losing nearly seven months of cricket.
His performances on his comeback remain just as erratic and inconsistent, but it is the potential he threatens to unleash that keeps him in the side on most occasions in all formats. Not for no reason does he boast of the record for the highest strike rate of 272 in an innings of over 50 runs - one where he overtook his lookalike and idol, Sanath Jayasuriya.
Not part of the initial 2015 World Cup squad, he was a late draft in for the injured Dimuth Karunaratne midway through the tournament. With opportunities in only a couple of matches - a quickfire 24 in the first batting in the middle-order and a failure opening in the innings in the second - he just didn't have the time to leave an impact as Sri Lanka crashed out in the quarter-finals. Now, with perhaps the best Test innings by a Sri Lankan batsman behind him earlier in the season, he comes into the 2023 World Cup with a senior batsman on whom the rather inexperienced side is going to rely heavily for good starts.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Possessed of a short backlift, powerful forearms and relentless bloody-mindedness, left-handed batsman Kusal Janith Perera's batting is not just inspired by his hero Sanath Jayasuriya's technique, at times, it seems an exact duplicate.
Like Jayasuriya, he has a second skill - though it is wicketkeeping rather than slow left-arm, and he was part of Sri Lanka's Under-19 teams, before he joined Colts Cricket Club as a senior. At Colts, Perera quickly set about forging a career founded on aggression and reliability in equal parts, and after two seasons, Sri Lanka's selectors could no longer ignore him.
An injury to Kumar Sangakkara saw him earn a place in Sri Lanka's limited-overs squad to Australia in January 2012, where his breezy innings made plain his talent - particularly during a 22 not out at the Gabba that took Sri Lanka home in a low-scoring ODI. Though a middle-order batsman by reputation, he was promoted to the position of opener in the two Twenty20s that followed, where he continued to play impactful innings
On return to Sri Lanka, Perera hit a first-class double-ton, then a 275-ball 336, and had proved enough to the selectors to be given a central contract and an extended run in the limited-overs sides.
Perera hit his maiden ODI century in Mirpur in 2014 to help Sri Lanka complete a 3-0 whitewash over Bangladesh. He then hammered a 17-ball half-century, Sri Lanka's joint-fastest, against Pakistan in Pallekele in July 2015, to equal Jayasuriya's record.
A month later Perera was handed his Test debut against India in Colombo. He made twin fifties, becoming only the second Sri Lanka batsman to score two half-centuries on debut.
Perera's burgeoning career hit a stumbling block in December 2015 when he was provisionally suspended from international cricket by the ICC, after having failed a dope test. He was recalled from Sri Lanka's tour of New Zealand and subsequently missed a bilateral T20 series in India, Asia Cup, and World T20.
His plight appeared bleak when his initial sample tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug, 19-Norandrostenedione, but it grew bleaker when his B sample returned identical results.
Perera had strong support from SLC, though, and also spent a substantial amount of his own money in fighting the WADA-approved lab's findings. His campaign to be cleared included a trip to England for a polygraph test, a hair analysis and a separate urine test, as well as substantial coordination with his main legal team, which was based in the UK.
All this eventually paid off when his name was cleared in May 2016, bringing his suspension to an end after five months out - the Qatar-based lab's findings were deemed "unsustainable" for "scientific and technical reasons" by an independent expert hired by the ICC.
ESPNcricinfo staff