Sunday, August 28, 2011

Angelo Mathews

Angelo Davis Mathews (born 2 June 1987) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. Like Chaminda Vaas He had his formal education in St. Joseph's College, Colombo. Born in Colombo, he captained the Sri Lankan cricket team team in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka. He is a Methodist Christian and speaks Tamil and Sinhalese like fellow Sri Lankan cricketer & legend Muttiah Muralitharan.
He made his international debut in a One Day International against Zimbabwe in November 2008.
In the Indian Premier League, he originally played for the Kolkata Knight Riders team. In the fourth season of the Indian Premier League, he was contracted by Sahara Pune Warriors for US$950,000. He was ruled out of IPL, for up to 8 weeks, due to injury sustained during the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
In November 2010, he was named 'Personality of the Year' by Living Magazine in Sri Lanka.[1]
After Kumar Sangakkara stepped down as captain following the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, Mathews was widely tipped to be Sri Lanka's next captain.[2]
Angelo Mathews has been praised by former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakarra to having good leadership qualities; Sangakarra had also tipped him to take over as captain after his resignation. Dilshan was later named as captain. News report suggested that he will be the vice captain when he recovers from his injury.
However, Mathews was strangely overlooked as vice captain, with the selectors naming Thilina Kandamby, who had not played for Sri Lanka regularly or for a prolonged period as vice captain for Sri Lanka's 2011 ODI and T20 tour of England.[3] But the move backfired on Duleep Mendis's selection panel, when Kandamby fared miserably with the bat, forcing them to drop the new vice captain.[4].According to latest cricket reports, Angelo has been named the vice captain of Sri Lanka.
Angelo Mathews
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Personal information
Full name Angelo Davis Mathews
Born 2 June 1987 (age 24)
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nickname Angie & Kaputa
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Role All-rounder
International information
National side Sri Lanka
Test debut (cap 112) 4 July 2009 v Pakistan
Last Test 5 December 2010 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 137) 28 November 2008 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 6 February 2011 v West Indies
Domestic team information
Years Team
2010 Kolkata Knight Riders
2011-present Sahara Pune Warriors
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC List A
Matches 13 48 43 86
Runs scored 527 960 2,827 1,730
Batting average 35.13 36.92 50.48 32.03
100s/50s 0/2 0/7 8/11 0/14
Top score 99 77 270 81
Balls bowled 786 1356 3,249 2,049
Wickets 6 33 36 54
Bowling average 70.16 32.21 43.00 29.01
5 wickets in innings 0 1 1 1
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/13 6/20 5/47 6/20
Catches/stumpings 4/– 15/– 26/– 33/–

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