Dhammika Prasad

Full Name:	Kariyawasam Tirana Gamage Dhammika Prasad
Birth date:	May 30, 1983
Age:	38 years
Hometown:	Ragama
City:	Ragama
Birth Country:	Sri Lanka
Batting Style:	Right Hand Batsman
Bowling Style:	Right Arm Medium Fast Bowler
Team :	Sri Lanka

Kariyawasam Tirana Gamage Dhammika Prasad was born on 30th May 1983 in Ragama in Sri Lanka. Prasad is a right hand batsman and bowls right arm fast medium balls. Dhammika received his formal education at De Mazenod College in Kandana. Prasad is a top order batsman.

Career Highlights:

Prasad played his first First-Class match in 2001-2002
His first List A debut was in 2002-2003
His first One Day International was against Bangladesh on 25th February 2006 at Chittagong. Prasad picked up 2 wickets and Sri Lanka won the match.
Prasad debuted in Test cricket versus India on 8th August 2008
He played his first T20I versus Australia on 6th of August 2011. Prasad couldn’t pick up any wicket though Sri Lanka won the match by 35 runs.

After Prasad’s initial breakthrough, he was kept off the game for a period of more than six months. After which he went on to be a part of the A squad. After some consistence performances he was the test captain against India in August 2008. He picked up 5 wickets in the match.

Prasad initially began his cricketing career as a batsman and used to come out onto the pitch at number 3. However, later he was forced to alter to bowling, that too fast paced. This was due to the unavailability of any bowler to bowl the new ball at De Mazenod College.

Dhammika has represented Basnahira North, Sri Lanka A, Kandurata Maroons, Sri Lanka Schools XI, Sinhalese Sports Club, De Mazenod College and the national team of Sri Lanka. He has one sibling N Kariyawasam. Dhammika had won a six month long scholarship for his stay in England.

Recent matches

Runs	Wkts	Team	Opp	Match Date	Score
-	0/42	Sri Lanka Legends	India Legends	2021-03-21	DT20
-	0/9	Sri Lanka Legends	South Africa Legends	2021-03-19	DT20
-	0/6	Sri Lanka Legends	England Legends	2021-03-14	DT20
-	2/22	Sri Lanka Legends	Bangladesh Legends	2021-03-10	DT20
-	1/14	Sri Lanka Legends	South Africa Legends	2021-03-08	DT20
-	0/36	Sri Lanka Legends	West Indies Legends	2021-03-06	DT20
0	1/33	Colombo Stars	Galle Gladiators	2020-12-07	DT20
7	0/24	Colombo Stars	Dambulla Giants	2020-12-01	DT20
7, 1	4/34, 1/38	Sri Lanka	West Indies	2015-10-22	TEST
13	2/38, 2/28	Sri Lanka	West Indies	2015-10-14	TEST

Statistictics by year

Batting Statistics

	Mat	Inns	Out	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BP	SR	0s	4s	6s	Ct	St
TEST	25	39	37	2	476	47	12.86	888	53.60	8	53	8	6	1
ODI	21	12	6	6	129	31	21.50	146	88.36	2	9	3	1	0
IT20	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0

Bowling Statistics

	Mat	Inns	Overs	MO	Runs	Wkts	Ave	Eco	SR	Ext	4wkts	5wkts	BBI	BBM
TEST	25	44	721.1	96	2698	75	35.97	3.84	57.7	78	5	1	5/50	8/169
ODI	23	23	162.1	3	959	29	33.07	6.01	33.5	37	0	0	3/46	3/46
IT20	1	1	3	0	37	0	-	12.33	-	0	0	0	0/37	0/37

Awards

Player of the Match	Date
Sri Lanka vs Pakistan 2nd Test Match 2015	2015-06-25

Last Series Played

Road Safety World Series 2021

LPL 2020 - Lanka Premier League T20

England vs Sri Lanka Test Series 2016

New Zealand vs Sri Lanka Test Series 2015

Sri Lanka vs West Indies Test Series 2015

Team Squad
Angelo Mathews	Dinesh Chandimal
Vishwa Fernando	Dimuth Karunaratne
Kamil Mishara	Ramesh Mendis
Asitha Fernando	Chamika Karunaratne
Dilshan Madushanka	Kasun Rajitha