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Thilan Thushara

Team flagSL43 yrs
batting styleleft-arm fast-medium Bowler
Career & Stats
Batting
Bowling

Thilan Thushara Recent Form

Batting

CL vs NSS, 1 (3)
CL vs DD, 29 (13) *
SLL vs INDL, T2010 (14)
SL vs WI, Test4 (4) *
SL vs ZIM, ODI7 (8)
CSK vs DC, IPL8 (8)
CSK vs RR, IPL2 (3) *
SL vs IND, ODI28 (44)
SL vs NZ, ODI11 (14)
SL vs IND, ODI15 (14)
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Bowling

CL vs NSS, 0-39
CL vs DD, 0-20
SLL vs BANL, T200-32
SLL vs INDL, T200-29
SL vs WI, Test0-79
SL vs ZIM, ODI1-50
SL vs IND, ODI3-57
SL vs IND, T20I2-41
CSK vs DC, IPL0-27
CSK vs MI, IPL2-16
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Thilan Thushara Carrer Stats

Batting

FormatMatInnR100s50sHSSRAvgFoursSixesDuckRank
ODI3827392015492.4518.67329----
T20I62400350.002.0000----
Test101494001546.778.55130----
IPL641200866.676.0000----

Bowling

FormatMatInnWEconAvgBest3W5WSRMaidenRank
ODI3838504.9927.865/470133.52----
T20I6678.1425.572/370018.86----
Test1018283.7437.146/1180159.57----
IPL6687.1620.122/160016.88----

Carrer Debut Information

ODI Debut
West Indies vs Sri Lanka at Gros Islet - April 15, 2008
T20I Debut
Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka at King City (NW) - October 10, 2008
Test Debut
West Indies vs Sri Lanka at Kingston - June 27 - 29, 2003
IPL Debut
vs Mumbai Indians at Newlands, Apr 18, 2009

Teams played for

Sri Lanka Chennai Super Kings Sri Lanka A Basnahira Cricket Dundee Ruhuna Reds Sri Lanka Legends

About Thilan Thushara

NameThilan Thushara
GenderMale
Birth1 Mar 1981
Birth PlaceBalapitiya
NationalitySri Lankan

Thilan Thushara came in as a left-arm pacer with deceptive quick-arm action. He was a product of BCCSL's Fast Bowling Unit who was fast-tracked due to his seam position, accuracy, and ability to swing the ball both ways. ... continue reading

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Player Bio

Thilan Thushara came in as a left-arm pacer with deceptive quick-arm action. He was a product of BCCSL's Fast Bowling Unit who was fast-tracked due to his seam position, accuracy, and ability to swing the ball both ways. 

Initially, the pacer was picked for the tour of South Africa in 2003 but had to wait for a year or so to make his debut. Thushara made his Test debut against West Indies in 2003 but failed to impress and then failed to make the Test or ODI squad for the England tour later in the year. Hence, got sidelined from the national selections for the next five years.

Thushara went back to the grind of domestic cricket to prove his worth and returned as a bowling all-rounder who would take any bowler out of the park. In 2008, the southpaw was the leading wicket-taker in the Inter-provincial limited-overs joint champs, which led to his national selection. 

The southpaw returned to the longest format to take his maiden fifer against West Indies and then earned the Sri Lankan caps for both the shorter formats, later that year. Post-Chaminda Vaas’ retirement, Thushara was taunted to be Sri Lanka’s leader of the pact and he formed a potent force along with Nuwan Kulasekara. 

His emergence and miraculous performance at the international stage meant an IPL contract wasn’t too far. The Sri Lankan was picked by Chennai Super Kings for the 2009 edition of the Indian Premier League for USD 140000. The pacer donned the Yellow jersey for two seasons to play six IPL games and bagged eight wickets in them. 

However, the promising speedster then saw a downhill in his career. Thushara started getting injuries that led him to lose his consistency and soon got dropped for the national side after playing 10 Tests, 38 ODIs, six T20Is to scalp 85 international wickets.

(As of April 2021)