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Full name Kanchana Deshsapriya Gunawardene
Born October 9, 1984, Colombo
Current age 23 years 290 days
Major teams Kandurata,Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club,Nondescripts Cricket Club,Sri Lanka Under-19s
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
39
66
3
2064
185
32.76
3
10
36
0
List A
32
31
1
700
96
23.33
1314
53.27
0
2
9
0
Twenty20
9
9
0
146
45
16.22
149
97.98
0
0
11
3
4
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
39
398
201
8
4/28
25.12
3.03
49.7
0
0
List A
32
12
11
0
-
-
-
5.50
-
0
0
0
Twenty20
9
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
First-class debut
2000/01
Last First-class
Nondescripts Cricket Club v Chilaw Marians Cricket Club at Colombo (NCC), Mar 27-30, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2001/02
Last List A
Chilaw Marians Cricket Club v Nondescripts Cricket Club at Colombo (NCC), Dec 9, 2007 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Nondescripts Cricket Club v Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club at Colombo (Moors), Aug 17, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Kandurata v Wayamba at Kurunegala, Apr 30, 2008 scorecard
Profile
His outstanding talent as an opening batsman was recognised early in his career, at DS Senanayake College, when he scored 700 runs in 12 matches in 2000 to make the Sri Lanka team for the Under-15 World Cup in England and the Asia Cup in Malaysia. The following year he made it to the Sri Lanka U-17 side to Bangladesh for the Asia Cup and in 2002 went to New Zealand for the U-19 World Cup. He made his club debut for Kurunegala Youth CC in the U-23 tournament before changing over to NCC in 2004. He has been a heavy scorer in domestic cricket since then with 160 against Tamil Union and 193 against CCC during the 2005-06 season which saw him gain promotion to the Sri Lanka A side for the home series against Bangladesh in 2007. Gunawardene enjoys the role of opener and relishes taking on the fast bowlers and has modelled his batting around Kumar Sangakkara.
