Tharanga Paranavitana
| Personal information |
| Full name | Nishad Tharanga Paranavitana |
| Born | 15 April 1982 (age 29)
Kegalle, Sri Lanka |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Batting style | Left-hand |
| Bowling style | Right-arm off-break |
| Role | Opening batsman |
| Career statistics |
| Competition | Test | FC | LA | T20 |
| Matches | 16 | 107 | 88 | 22 |
| Runs scored | 963 | 6,542 | 3,181 | 532 |
| Batting average | 37.03 | 41.66 | 42.41 | 25.33 |
| 100s/50s | 2/5 | 17/28 | 5/22 | 0/5 |
| Top score | 111 | 236 | 116* | 67* |
| Balls bowled | 90 | 1,388 | 838 | 96 |
| Wickets | 1 | 20 | 14 | 4 |
| Bowling average | 76.00 | 35.20 | 46.14 | 29.25 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a |
| Best bowling | 1/26 | 4/39 | 4/25 | 1/3 |
| Catches/stumpings | 7/– | 104/– | 50/– | 10/– |
| Source: CricketArchive, 7 February 2011 |
Nishad Tharanga Paranavitana (born 15 April 1982 in
Kegalle) is a
Sri Lankan cricketer. He is an
opening batsman and an
off-break bowler. He made his international debut in a
Test match against
Pakistan in February 2009. During the second Test match of that series, while heading for the third day's play, he became one of the Sri Lankan cricketers wounded when their team bus was attacked by terrorists in
Lahore,
Pakistan.
[1] Despite being attacked and badly injured, Paranavitana recovered to register his maiden test century sixteen months later on July 18, 2010 against India at Galle, Sri Lanka.
Career highlights
Test centuries
- In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
- The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career
India
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