Wirantha Fernando
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Ceylon
Colombo, Sri Lanka
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| Born | 6 February 1959 Ceylon | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 April 2000 (aged 41) Colombo, Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Colts Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
| 1993 | Moratuwa Sports Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive | |||||||||||||||
Wirantha Fernando (6 February 1959 – 17 April 2000) was a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer and politician.
Fernando, who went to Prince of Wales' College in Moratuwa, captained the Combined Schools team in his youth.[1] He represented the Sri Lanka Under-19 cricket team in a tour of Pakistan in 1976 and again in 1978, when the Australia Under-19 cricket team came to the island.[2]
A right-handed middle-order batsman, Fernando played for the Colts Cricket Club throughout the 1980s and had the distinction of captaining them in all five matches they played in the 1988/89 Lakspray Trophy, the first time the tournament had first-class status.[3] He was the club's leading run-scorer that season with 208 runs at 52.00, which included three half-centuries.[4]
In the 1989/90 Lakspray Trophy, Fernando handed over the captaincy to Rupanath Wickramaratne and amassed only 130 runs in the three matches he played, but did score his maiden first-class century, an innings of 111 against Moratuwa Sports Club at the Colts Cricket Club Ground.[5]
Fernando didn't play at first-class level in either of the next two seasons, then returned in 1992/93, with the Moratuwa Sports Club. He appeared in all five matches of Moratuwa's Saravanamuttu Trophy campaign, which saw them not lose a match and finish second in Group B.[6] His own contributions were minimal, making 163 runs at 32.60.[7]