Malinda Warnapura

Personal information

Full name

Basnayake Shalith Malinda Warnapura

Born

29 May 1979
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Nickname

Mali

Height

5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)

Batting style

Left-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm offbreak

Role

Batsman

Relations

Bandula Warnapura (uncle)

International information

National side

Sri Lanka

Test debut

25 June 2007 v Bangladesh

Last Test

20 July 2009 v Pakistan

ODI debut

20 May 2007 v Pakistan

Last ODI

29 August 2008 v India

Domestic team information

Years

Team

Basnahira South

Burgher Recreation Club

Colombo Cricket Club

Colts Cricket Club

Khelaghar SKS

Sri Lanka A

Career statistics

Competition	Tests	ODIs	FC	LA
Matches	14	3	149	111
Runs scored	821	35	7,183	2,316
Batting average	35.69	11.66	35.55	28.59
100s/50s	2/7	0/0	16/36	3/8
Top score	120	30	242	104*
Balls bowled	54	–	6,918	2,234
Wickets	0	–	118	69
Bowling average	–	–	27.72	23.15
5 wickets in innings	0	–	4	1
10 wickets in match	0	–	0	n/a
Best bowling	0/40	–	6/22	5/33
Catches/stumpings	14/–	3/–	100/–	43/–

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 4 August 2015

Basnayake Shalith Malinda Warnapura (born 26 May 1979 in Colombo, Sri Lanka), or Malinda Warnapura, is a former professional Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler. Making his first class debut in 1998/99, Warnapura did not play international cricket for Sri Lanka until 2007. He had however previously represented them in the cricket tournament at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. He made his highest first class score of 242 playing for Sri Lanka A against Bangladesh A in 2007.

Malinda made his ODI debut on 20 May 2007 against Bangladesh, and Test debut at the same series, on 25 June 2007. Malinda scored his first Test century in his third test, where he scored 120 runs in the first innings against West Indies. Despite his aggressive shots as an opening batsman with Michael Vandort, and in late with Tharanga Paranavitana, he dropped from the team after Pakistan series on 2009. Then he never called to the team in both Tests and ODIs. Until his doors were closed to the international arena, Malinda played 14 Tests with 2 centuries and 3 ODIs. He is now acting as a television commentator for sports and as well as plays domestic cricket.

International centuries

Test Centuries

The following table illustrates a summary of the Test centuries scored by Malinda Warnapura

In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
The column title Match refers to the Match Number of the player's career

Test Centuries of Malinda Warnapura
	Runs	Match	Innings	Against	City, Country	Venue	Year
[1]	120	3	1	West Indies	Providence, Guyana	Providence Stadium	22 March 2008
[2]	115	5	1	India	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club	23 July 2008

References

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