Rangana Herath

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Rangana Herath

Personal information
Full name	Herath Mudiyanselage Rangana Keerthi Bandara Herath
Born	19 March 1978 (age 33) Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Slow left arm orthodox
Role	Bowler
International information
National side	Sri Lanka
Test debut (cap 78)	22 September 1999 v Australia
Last Test	5 December 2010 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 120)	25 April 2004 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI	6 February 2011 v West Indies
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2010	Hampshire
2009	Surrey
1998/99–present	Moors Sports Club
1996/97–97/98	Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	ODIs	FC	List A
Matches	24	11	186	123
Runs scored	311	4	3,328	833
Batting average	13.52	2.00	16.47	17.72
100s/50s	0/1	0/0	0/10	0/1
Top score	80*	2	80*	88*
Balls bowled	5,665	450	36,757	5,153
Wickets	78	11	675	152
Bowling average	36.15	27.45	24.78	22.82
5 wickets in innings	4	0	38	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	5	n/a
Best bowling	5/99	3/28	8/43	4/19
Catches/stumpings	5/–	4/–	85/–	31/–
Source: CricketArchive, 8 February 2011

Herath Mudiyanselage Rangana Keerthi Bandara Herath, also known as H. M. R. K. B. Herath or Rangana Herath or Jack (born 19 March 1978, Kurunegala) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He was educated at Mayurapada Central College, Narammala and Maliyadeva College. He has also played cricket for Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club and Moors Sports Club. His bowling style is slow left arm orthodox. He made his Test match debut at Galle, Sri Lanka against the Australian cricket team in 1999, and his One Day International (ODI) debut against the Zimbabwean cricket team at Harare Sports Ground in 2004.
Herath joined the Sri Lankan squad in 2008 to face West Indies, for two Tests and three ODIs. In one of his warm up matches he got a five wicket haul.
He played a few matches for Surrey during the latter part of the 2009 English cricket season.
In April 2010, Herath joined Hampshire, where he played in the first half of the 2010 County Championship before fellow Sri Lankan Ajantha Mendis replaced him for the second half of the season.^[1]

Contents [hide] 1 Playing career 1.1 Test cricket 1.2 Australia (1999) 1.3 India, West Indies (2010) 2 References 3 External links

Playing career

Test cricket

Australia (1999)

Rangana Herath ascended to prominence against Australia in 1999 with a "mystery" ball. He broke into the national side after an impressive A tour to England. Herath while playing in two test matches in the series, deceived the visiting Australians with a delivery that darted the other way. He took six test wickets against the Australians.

India, West Indies (2010)

Herath played only in the test at Galle during the home series against India. Though Sri Lanka won, he only managed to took the wicket of Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh in that match. Herath was recalled for the second test match against the West Indies in November 2010. In that match played at the newly renovated R. Premadasa Stadium, he took three first innings wickets.