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Akalanka Ganegama

Sri Lanka

Full name Withanaarchchige Chamara Akalanka Ganegama

Born March 29, 1981, Colombo

Current age 28 years 102 days

Major teams Sri Lanka, Kandurata, Nondescripts Cricket Club, Sri Lanka A

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Withanaarchchige Chamara Akalanka Ganegama

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
ODIs	4	2	0	7	7	3.50	9	77.77	0	1	0	1
First-class	84	111	21	1370	75	15.22			2			36
List A	92	47	15	431	31	13.46			0			25
Twenty20	12	9	3	77	38	12.83	53	145.28	0	2	8	4

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
ODIs	4	3	66	88	2	2/27	2/27	44.00	8.00	33.0	0	0
First-class	84		9860	5590	220	7/25		25.40	3.40	44.8		11
List A	92		3762	2669	123	5/20	5/20	21.69	4.25	30.5	4	2
Twenty20	12	11	196	219	16	4/13	4/13	13.68	6.70	12.2	1	0

Career statistics

ODI debut	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Sharjah, Apr 8, 2001 scorecard
Last ODI	Australia v Sri Lanka at Perth, Jan 29, 2006 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	2000/01
Last First-class	Ruhuna v Kandurata at Colombo (RPS), Mar 5-7, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	2000/01
Last List A	Nondescripts Cricket Club v Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club at Colombo (SSC), Feb 25, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Colts Cricket Club v Nondescripts Cricket Club at Colombo (RPS), Sep 2, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Kandurata v Wayamba at Kurunegala, Apr 30, 2008 scorecard

Profile

Akalanka Ganegama is a fast bowler who, with some work, may well prove a useful, quick-scoring ODI allrounder. Keen to learn, from men such as Chaminda Vaas and Glenn McGrath no less, Ganegama was introduced to cricket by former Sri Lanka wicket-keeper Russel Hamer when he attended his private coaching classes. He soon made his mark at Susamyawardena College, bagging nine wickets in the match against Ananda College. The performance secured a scholarship to study and play for Ananda College, one of the country's leading Buddhist institutions.

Further success followed when he was picked for the U-19 World Cup hosted by Sri Lanka in 2000 and for the tour of England by Sri Lanka U-19, where he excelled by taking a ten-wicket match haul. He was selected for national honours soon after, touring Sharjah for the Gold Cup in 2000-01 and dismissing Shahid Afridi and Imran Farhat on his ODI debut.

A groin injury then saw him miss seven months of cricket. He returned to the Sri Lanka 'A' team and has been a regular since touring New Zealand. His best performance for NCC was taking seven wickets in an innings against CCC where he obtained most of his wickets bowling inswing and reverse swing. He has benefited immensely from fast bowling coaches Rumesh Ratnayake, Champaka Ramanayake and Anusha Samaranayake and present 'A' team coach Chandika Hathurusingha.
Sa'adi Thawfeeq July 2007