Kumar Dharmasena

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Deshabandu
Kumar Dharmasena
Personal information
Full name
Handunnettige Deepthi Priyantha Kumara Dharmasena
Born (1971-04-24) 24 April 1971 (age 53)
Colombo, Sri Lanka
NicknameUnanduwa
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm offbreak
Role All-rounder, umpire
International information
National side
Test debut(cap  59)6 September 1993 v  South Africa
Last Test8 March 2004 v  Australia
ODI debut(cap  82)24 August 1994 v  Pakistan
Last ODI25 February 2004 v  Australia
ODI shirt no.66
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
Men's Cricket
Representing Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka
ICC Cricket World Cup
Winner 1996 India-Pakistan-Sri Lanka
Source: Cricinfo, 24 November 2023

Deshabandu Handunnettige Deepthi Priyantha Kumar Dharmasena (born 24 April 1971) is a Sri Lankan cricket umpire and former international cricketer. [1] He is a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and the first person to participate in an ICC Cricket World Cup final both as a player and an umpire. A right-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler, Dharmasena was a member of the Sri Lankan side that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup.

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Playing career

Dharmasena was born in Colombo on 24 April 1971. [2] He started his cricketing career as a teenager at Nalanda College Colombo. [3] His first foray into international cricket was in 1994 in a Test match against South Africa. [2]

His obscure action made him perfect for bowling in one-day matches, yet Dharmasena also proved a useful batsman, especially after he was investigated in 1998 by the ICC for overstretching his bowling action to illegal proportions. Having been cleared in July 2000, he played for the one-day team on several occasions since, but rarely played Test cricket. [2]

Dharmasena was the 59th Sri Lankan cricketer to receive a Test cap (Sri Lanka v South Africa at Colombo Sinhalese Sports Club 1993).

Kumar Dharmasena has the record for playing the most number of ODI innings before being dismissed for a duck (72 innings). [4]

He along with Dulip Liyanage set the record for the highest 8th wicket runstand for Sri Lanka in ODI cricket (91). [5] [6]

Umpiring career

Following his retirement as a cricketer in November 2006, Dharmasena announced plans to become a competitive umpire, as he wished to remain "close to the game which I love so dearly". [7] Prior to his retirement, he had already umpired several domestic matches in the Sara Trophy, the major first-class cricket tournament in Sri Lanka. [7] He umpired his first international match in 2009, overseeing the one-day international between India and Sri Lanka at the Rangiri International Stadium in Dambulla: [8] he remains the youngest ever Sri Lankan to umpire any international match. [9] He umpired in the 2011 Cricket World Cup, and was appointed to the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires later that year. [2] Dharmasena was named the Umpire of the Year at the 2012 ICC Awards, receiving the David Shepherd Trophy. [10]

He was selected as one of the twenty umpires to stand in matches during the 2015 Cricket World Cup [11] and umpired in the final. [12] In doing so he became the first to play in and to umpire World Cup finals. [13] He stood in the final of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20. [14]

Kumar Dharmasena has worked as an umpire in 18 matches of ICC World T20, the most by any umpire from Sri Lanka. [15]

In January 2019, he won the David Shepherd Trophy for the ICC Umpire of the Year at the 2018 ICC Awards. [16] In April 2019, he was named as one of the sixteen umpires to stand in matches during the 2019 Cricket World Cup. [17] [18] In July 2019, he was named as one of the two on-field umpires for the second semi-final match, between Australia and England. [19] Later the same month, he was also named as one of the two on-field umpires for the Cricket World Cup Final. [20] England won the match in a Super Over. [21] He admitted an error at a critical moment in the match, but said he did not regret it. Had the right decision been made, England would have required 4 runs instead of 3 to win off the last 2 balls. [22]

He also umpired the final match of the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup between Pakistan and England. [23]

In September 2023, he was named as one of the sixteen match officials for 2023 Cricket World Cup. [24] [25]

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