Deepika Rasangika
Sri Lankan cricketer
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Deepika Rasangika (born 13 December 1983) is a Sri Lankan-born international cricketer who now plays for the Bahrain women's cricket team.[1][2]
Colombo, Sri Lanka
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| Born | 13 December 1983 Colombo, Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut (cap 40) | 2 May 2008 Sri Lanka v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 23 January 2014 Sri Lanka v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 9/9) | 12 June 2009 Sri Lanka v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 16 December 2025 Bahrain v Qatar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 16 December 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rasangika played in more than 60 matches for the Sri Lanka women's cricket team from 2008 to 2014.[3] She was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup.[4][5]
Rasangika moved to Bahrain in 2017 to take up a position at a local coaching academy.[6]
In March 2022, she was named in Bahrain's squad for the 2022 GCC Women's Gulf Cup in Oman.[7] She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for Bahrain against Oman, in the opening match of that tournament.[8] On 22 March 2022, in Bahrain's match against Saudi Arabia, Rasangika scored 161 not out from just 66 balls.[9] She became the first cricketer for Bahrain to score a century in WT20Is,[10] as well as racking up the highest individual score in a WT20I match.[11][12]