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Full name | Batugoda Rankoth Gedara Nirosha Kumari | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kandy, Sri Lanka | 9 May 1984||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 12 December 2017 |
Batugoda Rankoth Gedara Nirosha Kumari (born 9 May 1984), known as Nirosha Kumari, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. [1] Kumai made her Women's One Day International (WODI) debut at the 2006 Women's Asia Cup. She played for Sri Lanka in two WODIs.
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The Sri Lanka women's cricket team toured UAE from 9 to 13 January 2015. The tour included three One Day Internationals. The tour was part of the ICC Women's Championship. The tour also included three Women's Twenty20 International matches.
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The Sri Lanka women's cricket team toured the West Indies to play the West Indies women's cricket team during October 2017. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). The WODI games were part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship. West Indies won both the WODI and the WT20I series 3–0.
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The Sri Lanka women's cricket team played the South Africa women's cricket team in February 2019. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), which formed part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship, and three Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches. South Africa Women won the WT20I series 3–0. South Africa Women's captain Dane van Niekerk was ruled out of the last two WODI matches due to an injury, with Suné Luus leading the team in her place. South Africa Women also won the WODI series 3–0.
The England women's cricket team toured Sri Lanka to play the Sri Lanka women's national cricket team in March 2019. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), which formed part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship, and three Women's Twenty20 International (WT20) matches.
The Sri Lanka women's cricket team played the Australia women's cricket team in September and October 2019. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), which formed part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship, and three Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches. It was the first bilateral series played by Sri Lanka Women in Australia.
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The Sri Lanka women's national cricket team toured South Africa in October and November 2013. They played South Africa in three One Day Internationals and three Twenty20 Internationals, losing the ODI series 2–0 and losing the T20I series 2–1.
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The Pakistan women's national cricket team toured Sri Lanka in January 2002. They played Sri Lanka in six One Day Internationals, with Sri Lanka winning the series 6–0.
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