Lasith Embuldeniya

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Lasith Embuldeniya
Personal information
Born (1996-10-26) 26 October 1996 (age 25)
Colombo, Sri Lanka
BattingLeft-handed
Bowling Slow left-arm orthodox
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Test debut(cap  149)13 February 2019 v  South Africa
Last Test29 June 2022 v  Australia
Career statistics
Competition Test FC LA T20
Matches1743114
Runs scored191530358
Batting average 7.3411.5217.508.00
100s/50s0/00/00/00/0
Top score40407* 4*
Balls bowled4,84510,53742656
Wickets 71213102
Bowling average 36.7726.1831.8021.50
5 wickets in innings 51700
10 wickets in match1500
Best bowling7/1379/863/351/9
Catches/stumpings 2/–13/–1/–1/–
Source: Cricinfo, 29 June 2022

Lasith Embuldeniya (born 26 October 1996) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer who plays Test match cricket for Sri Lanka. [1] He made his international debut for the Sri Lanka cricket team in February 2019, and plays for Nondescripts Cricket Club in domestic cricket. [2]

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Domestic career

He made his first-class debut for Nondescripts Cricket Club in the 2016–17 Premier League Tournament on 28 January 2017. [3] He made his List A debut for Matara District in the 2016–17 Districts One Day Tournament on 17 March 2017. [4]

In March 2018, he was named in Colombo's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament. [5] [6] The following month, he was also named in Colombo's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. [7] In August 2018, he was named in Colombo's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League. [8]

He made his Twenty20 debut on 4 January 2020, for Nondescripts Cricket Club in the 2019–20 SLC Twenty20 Tournament. [9] In March 2020, in round seven of the 2019–20 Premier League Tournament, Embuldeniya took nine wickets for 86 runs in the second innings of the match against Saracens Sports Club. [10]

In October 2020, he was drafted by the Kandy Tuskers for the inaugural edition of the Lanka Premier League. [11] In August 2021, he was named in the SLC Greens team for the 2021 SLC Invitational T20 League tournament. [12] However, prior to the first match, he failed a fitness test. [13]

International career

In December 2018, he was named in Sri Lanka team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. [14] In February 2019, he was named in Sri Lanka's Test squad for their series against South Africa. [15] He made his Test debut for Sri Lanka against South Africa on 13 February 2019. [16] In the match, Embuldeniya became the fourth bowler and first left arm spinner for Sri Lanka to take a five-wicket haul on Test debut, finishing with figures of 5 for 66. [17] [18] In the second Test match of the series, Embuldeniya dislocated a finger during the first day, and was ruled out for six weeks. [19]

On 20 January 2020, during the first Test against Zimbabwe, Embuldeniya took his second five wicket haul. He was the only specialist spinner of the team and took 5 for 114 runs to restrict Zimbabwe for 358. [20] During the second innings, Embuldeniya took two wickets, with Sri Lanka winning by ten wickets. [21] After poor performances in both the Bangladesh series and the first Test against Australia, Embuldeniya was dropped from the squad. [22] [23]

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