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| Full name | Kurukulasooriya Nishan Peiris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 August 1997 Negombo, Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut(cap 167) | 26 September 2024 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 29 January 2025 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | Badureliya Sports Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–present | Colombo Cricket Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2020 | Ragama Cricket Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Negombo Cricket Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–present | Galle Cricket Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kurukulasooriya Nishan Peiris (born 11 August 1997) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer currently plays Test cricket for the national team. He is a right-arm off-break bowler and plays for the Colombo Cricket Club in domestic cricket. [1]
He made his first-class debut for Badureliya Sports Club in the 2015–16 Premier League Tournament on 19 February 2016. [2] He made his Twenty20 debut for Ragama Cricket Club in the 2017–18 SLC Twenty20 Tournament on 24 February 2018. [3] He made his List A debut for Ragama Cricket Club in the 2017–18 Premier Limited Overs Tournament on 11 March 2018. [4]
In March 2018,he was named in Galle's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament. [5] [6] The following month,he was also named in Galle's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. [7] In August 2018,he was named in Galle's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League. [8] He was the leading wicket-taker in the 2018–19 Premier Limited Overs Tournament,with 20 dismissals in six matches. [9]
In March 2019,he was named in Galle's squad for the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. [10] Peiris continued to make strides at domestic circuit and he had a stellar 2024 National Super League 4-Day Tournament,where he capped off the tournament on a high note by emerging as the leading wicket-taker of the tournament with 35 scalps averaging 14.68 in across 6 matches representing Galle. [11] [12]
In August 2018,Sri Lanka Cricket named him in a preliminary squad of 31 players for the 2018 Asia Cup. [13] In November 2018,he was added to Sri Lanka's squad as a replacement for Akila Dananjaya ahead of the third Test against England. [14] [15] [16] In December 2018,he was named in Sri Lanka team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. [17] In March 2024,he was named in Sri Lankan test squad for their test series against Bangladesh as the selection think-tank decided to add an extra spinner for the series and as a result,Peiris made the cut replacing seamer Milan Rathnayake. [18] [19] [20]
In September 2024,Peiris was drafted as a replacement for Vishwa Fernando,as the latter had confronted a leg injury prior to the start of the second test match against New Zealand. [21] [22] Peiris made test debut against New Zealand in the second test,replacing Ramesh Mendis. [23] [11] [24] In the first innings,he got 3 wickets and helped Prabath Jayasuriya to dismantle New Zealand for 88 runs. [25] [26] In the second innings,he took his maiden five wicket haul and ended with 6 for 170 runs,where Sri Lanka won the match by an innings and 154 runs and series 2–0. [27] [28] [29] He became only the fourth Sri Lankan to take a six-wicket haul in an innings on test debut and with a match bag of nine wickets,he was only behind Prabath Jayasuriya and Praveen Jayawickrama for having taken most number of wickets by a Sri Lankan bowler on test debut. [30] [31]
In January 2025,he was named in Sri Lanka's test squad for their two-match test series against Australia. [32] During Australia' first innings,under scorching sun,he alongside his spin compatriots Prabath Jayasuriya and Jeffrey Vandersay bowled a marathon spell of overs combining a record total of 139 overs and out of which Peiris bowled a total of 41 overs. [33] He conceded 189 runs during the marathon spell of 41 overs with a slightly expensive economy rate of 4.61 and during the process he also set the record for having registered the worst bowling figures by a Sri Lankan bowler in an innings of a test match as he ended up wicketless throughout his quota of overs despite having leaked 189 runs. [34]