Shashikala Siriwardene

Shashikala Siriwardene
Personal information
Full name Hettimulla Appuhamilage Shashikala Dedunu Siriwardene
Born (1985-02-14) 14 February 1985
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right arm off spin
Role Captain ; All-rounder
International information
National side
ODI debut 13 March 2003 v West Indies
Last ODI 16 September 2018 v India
ODI shirt no. 14
T20I debut 21 April 2010 v West Indies
Last T20I 25 September 2018 v India
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2003– Slimline Sport Club Women
2010– Marians Ladies
Career statistics
Competition WODI WT20I
Matches 100 49
Runs scored 1782 711
Batting average 19.36 18.23
100s/50s 0/7 0/1
Top score 68 52
Balls bowled 4509 1002
Wickets 108 46
Bowling average 26.72 19.97
5 wickets in innings 0 –
10 wickets in match 0 n/a
Best bowling 4/11 4/21
Catches/stumpings 37/- 11/-
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 25 September 2018
Shashikala Siriwardene
Medal record
Women's Cricket
Representing  Sri Lanka
Asian Games

Bronze medal

2014 IncheonTeam

Hettimulla Appuhamilage Shashikala Dedunu Siriwardene (born 14 February 1985) in Colombo, known as Shashikala Siriwardene, is a Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lankan women's cricket team. Many critics agreed that, Siriwardene is the best ever woman cricketer played for Sri Lanka in their Women cricket history. She is the only woman cricketer to take 100 ODI wickets in WODIs for Sri Lanka.Also she is the only woman cricketer to take 100+ wickets as well as to score 1000+ runs in WODI for Sri Lanka.She is a former student of President's College, Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte.

International career

Siriwardene made her ODI debut against West Indies at Kingstown, St. Vincent in March 2003. She took 2–20 and also scored a brisk 29 in that match, which was ultimately won by the Sri Lankans.

Her best bowling figures of 4–11 was recorded against Pakistan in the 2005–06 Women's Asia Cup in Karachi. Other notable performances include her 4–34 also against Pakistan in the 2006–07 Women's Asia Cup. She was ranked World's top women all-rounder in 2014.

Siriwardene has captained Sri Lanka Women in 49 WODI matches with 18 wins, 29 losses and 2 no results, and she is the Sri Lankan Women cricketer to captained internationally in most number of times.[1] Instead of her 38.29% winning percentage as captain, she is regarded as the best Women cricketer to play the game for Sri Lanka.

Currently, Shashikala is the second highest WODI run scorer for Sri Lanka with 1,554 runs in 87 matches. This includes 7 WODI fifties as well, but yet to get a century.[2] She is the highest WODI wicket taker for Sri Lanka as well, with 101 wickets including 6 four-wicket hauls. With this feat, Siriwardene is the first and only Sri Lankan women cricketer to get 100 wickets in WODI history.[3]

In Women T20 Internationals, Siriwardene is second only to former captain Chamari Atapattu in most runs for Sri Lanka Women. She has scored 663 runs in 45 matches with highest score of unbeaten 52 runs. In bowling department, there is no one to match her, where she is top ranked with 44 WT20I wickets with an average of 19.29.[4] Siriwardene has captained T20I side as well with record of 31 matches. Sri Lanka have won 9 of them and lost 20 however with winning percentage of 31.03%.[5]

On 1 December 2016, she won the Sri Lanka Cricket awards for the Women’s ODI All Rounder of the Year 2016.[6] During the 2017 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup she set the milestone for becoming the first woman cricketer to play in 100 WODI matches for Sri Lanka.[7][8]

In October 2018, she was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Cricket Records - Sri Lanka Women - / - Records - Women's One-Day Internationals - Most matches as captain - ESPN Cricinfo". Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "Cricket Records | Sri Lanka Women | Records | Women's One-Day Internationals | Most runs | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  3. ↑ "Cricket Records - Sri Lanka Women - / - Records - Women's One-Day Internationals - Most wickets - ESPN Cricinfo". Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "Cricket Records - Sri Lanka Women - / - Records - Women's Twenty20 Internationals - Most wickets - ESPN Cricinfo". Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "Cricket Records - Sri Lanka Women - / - Records - Women's Twenty20 Internationals - Most matches as captain - ESPN Cricinfo". Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Dialog Cricket Awards 2016: List of award winners". Cricket Machan. 1 December 2016.
  7. ↑ "28th Match: Pakistan Women v Sri Lanka Women at Leicester, Jul 15, 2017 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  8. ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Sri Lanka Women | Women's One-Day Internationals | Most matches | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  9. ↑ "Squads confirmed for ICC Women's World T20 2018". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
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