Tony Opatha

Tony Opatha
ටෝනි ඕපාත
Personal information
Full name Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha
Born (1947-08-05) 5 August 1947
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Batting Right-hand bat
Bowling Right-arm medium
Role Bowler
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 6) 7 June 1975 v West Indies
Last ODI 16 June 1979 v India
Career statistics
Competition ODI FC LA
Matches 5 39 20
Runs scored 29 790 100
Batting average 9.66 17.17 7.69
100s/50s 0/0 0/3 0/0
Top score 18 65 19
Balls bowled 253 n/a 1,092
Wickets 5 111 21
Bowling average 36.00 30.74 33.85
5 wickets in innings 0 2 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 3/31 6/91 3/20
Catches/stumpings 3/– 24/– 8/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 24 December 2014

Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha (born August 5, 1947, Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan ODI cricketer. A right-arm medium pace bowler, he played five One Day Internationals at the 1975 and 1979 Cricket World Cups.

As player/manager of the rebel tour to South Africa in 1982-83 in defiance of the sporting ban against the apartheid state, he and the other tourists received a lifetime ban from international cricket.

In September 2018, he was one of 49 former Sri Lankan cricketers felicitated by Sri Lanka Cricket, to honour them for their services before Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC).[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ "Sri Lanka Cricket to felicitate 49 past cricketers". Sri Lanka Cricket. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "SLC launched the program to felicitate ex-cricketers". Sri Lanka Cricket. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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