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Full name Uda Walawwe Mahim Bandaralage Chanaka Asanka Welegedara
Born March 20, 1981, Matale
Current age 27 years 202 days
Major teams Sri Lanka,Moors Sports Club,Sri Lanka A,Wayamba
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm fast-medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
0
First-class
48
57
23
348
30
10.23
886
39.27
0
0
12
0
List A
40
19
9
45
17*
4.50
127
35.43
0
0
9
0
Twenty20
11
7
4
33
12*
11.00
25
132.00
0
0
0
2
1
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
1
2
132
76
4
2/17
4/76
19.00
3.45
33.0
0
0
0
First-class
48
6410
3555
139
5/34
25.57
3.32
46.1
6
6
1
List A
40
1723
1258
53
5/16
5/16
23.73
4.38
32.5
1
2
0
Twenty20
11
11
252
254
17
3/18
3/18
14.94
6.04
14.8
0
0
0
Career statistics
Only Test
Sri Lanka v England at Galle, Dec 18-22, 2007 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut
2001/02
Last First-class
South Africa A v Sri Lanka A at Benoni, Sep 11-14, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2002/03
Last List A
South Africa A v Sri Lanka A at Bloemfontein, Sep 26, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Moors Sports Club v Ragama Cricket Club at Colombo (NCC), Aug 17, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Ruhuna v Wayamba at Kurunegala, May 1, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Welegedera was a late starter to cricket. He learnt to play the game for St. Thomas' College in Matale at the age of 17, but he made rapid progress performing in provincial matches. When he came to Colombo he was selected as one of 15 probables by Daryl Foster, the Australian fast bowling coach, for the Sri Lanka Pace Academy headed by former Sri Lanka fast bowler Rumesh Ratnayake in 2000. Soon afterwards he was sent to the MRF Pace Academy in Chennai to further develop his skills. Playing for Moors SC since 2002 he bowled his club to the Premier league title in 2002-03 capturing 34 wickets (avg. 24.14) in 13 matches. But his career-best performance came the following season when he took a match haul of nine wickets against Colombo Cricket Club to steer Moors to a comprehensive ten-wicket win. He took the majority of his wickets bowling inswing and trapping the batsmen leg before. Welegedera toured Sharjah with the Sri Lanka Academy side and took seven wickets against UAE, which earned him selection for Sri Lanka A. But he suffered an ankle injury and had to be operated in Australia. The injury kept him out of cricket for 1 ½ years, but his Test debut finally arrived against England, in Galle, during the 2007-08 series. He impressed with a strong action and brisk pace, marking him out as an ideal successor to Chaminda Vaas. He was later named in the probables squad for the Champions Trophy.
