Personal

Name

Suranga Lakmal
Full Name

Ranasinghe Arachchige Suranga Lakmal
Country

Sri Lanka
Gender

Male
Date of Birth

March 10, 1987

Sport Profile

Sport

Cricket
Discipline

Men's Cricket
Active/Retired

Active
Role

Right-arm medium-fast Bowler
Level

National, International
Teams

Sri Lanka, Tamil Unicorn, Bashnahire South, Matara Sports Club, and Athletic Club
Profile

Suranga Lakmal is a Sri Lankan International cricketer, who plays from the national team of Sri Lanka since 2009. He plays in all formats of the game and represents the Tamil Unicorn team in domestic cricket. He has captained the test squad of the national cricket team of Sri Lanka for a couple of years.

Suranga Lakmal is a right-armed medium-fast bowler, who occasionally bats as a lower-order right-handed batsman as well. He has played cricket in his school and college level before got selected for the under-19 Sri Lankan team at the beginning of his career. He got selected for an ODI in 2009 to begin his international cricket career against Indian. Then he made his test debut in 2010 and T20I debut in 2011 successfully and became a regular member of the national Sri Lankan.

His success rate in test format is comparatively higher than the rest two layouts of the international field. Suranga Lakmal is a lanky pacer who can bowl at high speed with properly skilled leaps and bounds. He was named in the team of Sri Lanka for 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup.

(as Compiled by Madhushree Das Ghosh)

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Career Information

Debut Test Match: at R. Premadasa Stadium Vs West Indies on 23rd of November in 2010

Last Test Match: at St. George’s Park Stadium Vs South Africa on 21st of February in 2019

Debut ODI Match: at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium Vs India on 18th of December in 2009

Last ODI: at Dubai International Cricket Stadium Vs Bangladesh on 15th of September in 2018

Debut T20I Match: at County Ground Stadium Vs England on 25th of June in 2011

Last T20I Match: at The Wanderers Stadium Vs South Africa on 24th of March in 2018

Bowling Career:

  • He has taken 137 wickets in 57 matches in 9 years of Test career at an average of 39.41 including 3 five-wicket hauls (as on May 21, 2019)
  • He has taken 105 wickets in 81 matches in 9 years of ODI career at an average of 31.63 (as on May 21, 2019)
  • He has taken 8 wickets in 11 matches in 8 years of T20I career at an average of 41.25 (as on May 21, 2019)

Batting Career:

  • He has scored 740 runs in 57 matches in 9 years of Test career at an average of 11.04 and strike rate of 49.63 (as on May 21, 2019)
  • He has scored 205 runs in 11 matches in 9 years of ODI career at an average of 8.2 and strike rate of 55.86 (as on May 21, 2019)
Achievements/Records Associated With
  • SLC ODI Bowler of the Year 2016-2017
  • Third Test Cricket debutant to take wicket off first ball.