Dulip Samaraweera
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| Full name | Dulip Prasanna Samaraweera | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 February 1972 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm offbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 60) | 8 December 1993 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 18 March 1995 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 73) | 3 November 1993 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 20 February 1994 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 4 July 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dulip Prasanna Samaraweera (born 12 February 1972) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played in seven Test matches and five One Day Internationals for his country from 1993 to 1995. He was a right-handed opening batsmen and occasional right arm off-spinner.
His younger brother Thilan Samaraweera is also a former Test, ODI and T20I player of the Sri Lankan national cricket team.[1][2]
His brother in law Bathiya Perera is also a former first class cricketer of Sri Lanka.[1][3]
Domestic career
Playing for the Colts Cricket Club in Sri Lanka, Samaraweera made his first class debut in the 1991-92 season.[1] He made his Twenty20 debut on 17 August 2004, for Colts Cricket Club in the 2004 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.[4]
He continued his first-class career for Colts until retiring in 2003. A strike rate of 53 in ODIs and 26 in Tests indicated that he was a dour player who did not score quickly. Although he never bowled at international level, he had 41 wickets to his name at first class level with an excellent average of 20. He scored over 7000 runs at first-class level including 16 centuries and 34 half centuries but never established himself at international level.[1]