Isuru Udana

Isuru Udana

Personal information
Full name	Isuru Udana Tillakaratna
Born	17 February 1988 (age 23) Balangoda, Sri Lanka
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Left-arm fast-medium
Role	Pace bowler
International information
National side	Sri Lanka
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2008	Tamil Union
2009	Wayamba
Career statistics
Competition	FC	List A
Matches	18	27
Runs scored	427	248
Batting average	21.35	20.66
100s/50s	0/2	0/0
Top score	88	49*
Balls bowled	2,115	1,106
Wickets	40	44
Bowling average	31.65	21.31
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a
Best bowling	4/60	4/36
Catches/stumpings	8/–	15/–
Source: CricketArchive, 12 December 2009

Isuru Udana Tillakaratna (born 17 February 1988 in Balangoda) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He plays domestic cricket for Tamil Union and Wayamba. On September 22, 2010 while playing for Wayamba in the Champions League T20, Udana completed a rare feat by taking a hat-rick of two (legal) deliveries. Mathew Sinclair, the second wicket of the hat-rick was out stumped off a no ball.
Udana made his first-class and List A whilst playing for the Sri Lanka A team during their tour to South Africa in August and September 2008. He subsequently went on to play for Tamil Union in both forms during the 2008–09 season. He was then selected by Wayamba to play in both the first-class and Twenty20 portions of the Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial Cricket Tournament. In the Twenty20 final against Basnahira South he was named Man of the Match after taking 4-31, including 4 of the top 5 batsman.^[1] He was also named player of the tournament.^[2]
Udana was selected in the Sri Lanka squad for the 2009 ICC World Twenty20.^[3] He made his Twenty20 international debut on 8 June 2009 against Australia. He played in 5 of Sri Lanka's 7 games in the tournament, including their loss in the final to Pakistan.^[4]