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| Full name | C. T. Muttaiah Devaraj | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 August 1938 Batticaloa, Ceylon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 14 April 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Muttaiah Devaraj (born 16 August 1938) is a former cricketer who played seven matches of first-class cricket for Ceylon between 1964 and 1967. He later became a match referee.
Devaraj attended Zahira College, Colombo, where he captained the cricket team in 1958. [1] A middle-order batsman, he toured India with the Ceylon team in 1964-65, playing in five first-class matches but not in any of the matches against India. In the match against Madras he made his highest first-class score of 85, which was also Ceylon's highest score in the match. [2]
He later became a coach, an administrator and a match referee. He served as a match referee in Sri Lankan domestic cricket from 2002 to 2011. [3] He has twice been formally honoured by Sri Lanka Cricket for his services to cricket in Sri Lanka: in 2000 [4] and in 2014, when the honour included an award of 300,000 rupees. [5]
In September 2018, he was one of 49 former Sri Lankan cricketers felicitated by Sri Lanka Cricket, to honour them for their services before Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC). [6] [7]
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