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Full name Mahawaduge Dilruwan Kamalaneth Perera
Born July 22, 1982, Panadura
Current age 25 years 300 days
Major teams Sri Lanka,Basnahira South,Colts Cricket Club,Panadura Sports Club
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
4
4
0
44
30
11.00
77
57.14
0
0
4
0
0
0
First-class
80
138
6
3258
134
24.68
3
11
75
0
List A
75
73
0
1376
74
18.84
0
5
22
0
Twenty20
15
15
1
160
33
11.42
141
113.47
0
0
19
3
4
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
4
2
42
28
1
1/17
1/17
28.00
4.00
42.0
0
0
0
First-class
80
12422
5949
233
7/71
25.53
2.87
53.3
10
0
List A
75
2571
1672
57
5/26
5/26
29.33
3.90
45.1
0
1
0
Twenty20
15
14
276
280
11
2/19
2/19
25.45
6.08
25.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
ODI debut
Sri Lanka v England at Colombo (RPS), Oct 13, 2007 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v Sri Lanka at Melbourne, Feb 29, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
2000/01
Last First-class
Badureliya Sports Club v Colts Cricket Club at Colombo (Colts), Mar 27-30, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2000/01
Last List A
Australia v Sri Lanka at Melbourne, Feb 29, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Chilaw Marians Cricket Club v Galle Cricket Club at Colombo (Police), Aug 17, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Basnahira South v Kandurata at Colombo (Burgher), Apr 24, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Dilruwan Perera has made rapid progress since starting his career at Sri Sumangala College Panadura. He toured Australia with the Sri Lanka Under-19 team and, after he made his first-class debut for Panadura SC, was drafted into the A side in 2001. He played one season for Chilaw Marians Cricket Club and holds the bowling record for the Under-23s with 55 wickets from seven matches in 2004.
Perera's offbreaks and the arm-ball, which he uses to good effect, brought him his best bowling figures - seven wickets in an innings for Panadura SC v Galle CC in 2005 and was selected for Sri Lanka A's tour of England in 2007. On the advice of Muttiah Muralitharan - who he counts among his idols alongside Saqlain Mushtaq - he does "spot bowling" for at least an hour every day to perfect his skills. He has benefited immensely from being a member of the Sri Lanka Spin Academy where he came under the coaching of two former offspinners, Ashley Mallett of Australia and Ruwan Kalpage, the Sri Lankan.
Perera earned a call-up to Sri Lanka's squad for the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa after Muralitharan was ruled out due to injury.
Sa'adi Thawfeeq September 2007
