thilina kandamby Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
thilina kandamby is a cricketer(sportsman) from Sri Lanka. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Sahan Hewa Thilina Kandamby
Born
June 04, 1982, Colombo
Age
41 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 39 | 5 | - |
Inn | - | 36 | 4 | - |
Runs | - | 870 | 13 | - |
Avg | - | 29.0 | 3.25 | - |
SR | - | 69.6 | 61.9 | - |
HS | - | 93 | 10 | - |
NO | - | 6 | 0 | - |
100s | - | 0 | 0 | - |
50s | - | 5 | 0 | - |
4s | - | 71 | 0 | - |
6s | - | 0 | 0 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 39 | 5 | - |
Inn | - | 9 | - | - |
Balls | - | 174 | - | - |
Runs | - | 173 | - | - |
Wkt | - | 2 | - | - |
BBI | - | 37 / 2 | - | - |
BBM | - | 37 / 2 | - | - |
Eco | - | 5.97 | - | - |
Avg | - | 86.5 | - | - |
5W | - | 0 | - | - |
10W | - | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Sri Lanka
- Abahani Limited
- Basnahira North
- Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club
- Central Province
- Kandurata Maroons
- Sinhalese Sports Club
- Sri Lanka A
- Sri Lanka Board President's XI
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Kandamby churned out decent performances in the next two domestic seasons, taking over the captaincy of Bloomfield in 2004 and winning the man of the series award in the 2005-06 limited overs tournament but it was his 2007 batting exploits that put him back in contention for the national squad.
He moved to SSC and was instrumental in helping them win the championship, scoring 822 runs at 68.5, with three centuries, including his highest score of 202. He was then chosen to lead Sri Lanka A for their tour of South Africa.
Under Sri Lanka 'A' coach Chandika Hathurusingha, Kandamby lost a lot of weight and worked on his fitness so that he was fit to play at the highest level. He has a good cricketing brain and Chandika Hathurusingha even earmarked him as a leader for the future.
Kandamby was recalled to the national side for the Zimbabwe series in 2008, where he steered his team home with a crucial 40 in a low-scoring affair. Since his recall, Kandamby has been in outstanding form, scoring 5 fifties in his last 17 innings. He was twice denied of a century --both times against India -- as he ran out of partners. He has matured a great deal since his first stint with the national team and was rewarded with a place in the test squad for the India series in November-December 2009.
Despite some fine batting displays, he was ousted from the 2011 World Cup squad. After Sri Lanka's loss in the final, he earned a call-back along with a promotion as vice-captain. Having skippered the Under-19 team, he was took over the reins from an injured Dilshan for a T20 encounter against England in June 2011. Sri Lanka romped to a facile 9 wicket win under Kandamby's leadership but the selectors closed the doors on him, dishing out more opportunities for young guns.
Once regarded as the crux of Sri Lanka's middle order, Kandamby is no longer a part of it. However, he continues to toil hard for the Sinhalese Sports Club in domestic cricket.
by Mayank Wadhi and Deivarayan Muthu
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Kandamby is a cricketer who has not fulfilled the promise he showed as a schoolboy at Ananda College, one of the country's leading Buddhist institutions. He holds the highest individual score of 144 in the traditional match against Nalanda made in 1999. The following year was his best, aggregating 940 runs from 12 matches and was selected captain of the Sri Lanka Under-19 side to tour Australia where he won the Man-of-the-Series award with some sterling contributions. Graduating to the Sri Lanka A side, he toured India and hit five half-centuries which saw him being selected for the Sri Lanka team's tour to New Zealand. He was picked for Sri Lanka's tour to Zimbabwe in 2004 but a lack of consistency meant he was dropped after just four ODI appearances.
He is the first to admit that he did not completely grab the opportunities that came his way. In an attempt to win back his place, he took over the captaincy of Bloomfield in 2004 and thrice scored ninety in the Premier league. In 2005-06, he won the Premier limited overs Man-of-the-Tournament award. The retirement of Russell Arnold after the 2007 World Cup opened up a spot for him but he had to wait more than a year for a recall. He returned to Zimbabwe and scored a crucial 40 in a low-scoring game to set up the victory, and that set in motion an exceptional run of form for Kandamby that saw him break into the Test squad for Sri Lanka's tour of India in late 2009.
For several years, he competed for a spot in the one-day middle order with Thilan Samaraweera and Chamara Kapugedera but lost out to them in the race for a place in the 2011 World Cup squad. That June, however, following several months of turmoil in Sri Lankan cricket, he returned to the one-day squad as vice-captain, and took charge in the Twenty20 against England at Bristol after Tillakaratne Dilshan was ruled out with a broken thumb.
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