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Full name Dulip Prasanna Samaraweera
Born February 12, 1972, Colombo
Current age 36 years 198 days
Major teams Sri Lanka,Colts Cricket Club
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Other Coach
Relations Brother - TT Samaraweera
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
7
14
0
211
42
15.07
805
26.21
0
0
18
0
5
0
ODIs
5
4
0
91
49
22.75
169
53.84
0
0
8
0
3
0
First-class
136
200
16
7210
250*
39.18
16
34
120
0
List A
66
57
8
1658
148
33.83
3
8
22
0
Twenty20
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
136
1927
833
41
5/78
20.31
2.59
47.0
1
0
List A
66
12
11
0
-
-
-
5.50
-
0
0
0
Twenty20
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
Test debut
Sri Lanka v West Indies at Moratuwa, Dec 8-13, 1993 scorecard
Last Test
New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Dunedin, Mar 18-22, 1995 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Sri Lanka v West Indies at Sharjah, Nov 3, 1993 scorecard
Last ODI
India v Sri Lanka at Jalandhar, Feb 20, 1994 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1991/92 - 2003/04
List A span
1991/92 - 2004/05
Only Twenty20
Colts Cricket Club v Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club at Colombo (Moors), Aug 17, 2004 scorecard
Profile
Dulip Samaraweera was a determined stoic opening batsman. Chosen as a replacement for Chandika Hathrurusinghe, Samaraweera did not do enough in his limited opportunities to warrant further selection. Making his debut against the West Indies in the inaugural Test between the two nations, he scored 16 and 5. In the following three-Test series against India he failed to pass 50 in any of his six innings. A solid batsman at domestic level, for Sri Lanka he fell below the required standard. When he did see off the opening bowlers he failed to display the required strokeplay to take full advantage, failing to pass 50 in 14 Test innings. He was a handy offspiner. Johann P Jayasekera