Batting style Left-handed Role Cricket Player Name Charith Asalanka | Bowling style Right-arm off-spin | |
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Full name Kariyawasam Indipalage Charith Asalanka | ||
Sri lanka u19 cricket captain charith asalanka and vice captain sammu ashan
Kariyawasam Indipalage Charith Asalanka (born on 29 June 1997, Elpitiya, Galle District, Sri Lanka) is a Sri Lankan cricketer.
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- Sri lanka u19 cricket captain charith asalanka and vice captain sammu ashan
- charith asalanka sammu ashan are two fantastic players roshan abeysinghe
- Early career
- First class career
- Captaincy
- References
charith asalanka sammu ashan are two fantastic players roshan abeysinghe
Early career
Asalanka toured England with the Sri Lanka under-17 team in 2013, opening the batting and top-scoring in each innings with 92 and 31 in a three-day match against an English under-17 team at Loughborough. He opened the batting for his school, Richmond College, Galle, in 2014-15, helping them into the final of the schools' twenty-20 competition. He captained the national under-19 team against under-19 teams from Australia and Bangladesh in 2014-15. In the five-match limited-overs series against Bangladesh under-19 he was Sri Lanka's highest scorer, with 225 runs at an average of 45.00, and second-highest wicket-taker, with eight wickets at 21.00. He was most prominent in Sri Lanka's victory in the first match, with 4 for 36 and 63.
First class career
He made his first-class debut in April 2015, in the match to decide who should take the final place in the Premier Trophy in the following season. Galle Cricket Club batted first and were all out for 31. Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club made 215 in reply. In their second innings Galle lost their first wicket in the second over, but Asalanka, batting at number three, hit 114 off 123 balls, and Galle totalled 295. Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club needed 112 to win, but Asalanka took 4 for 34 (Malith de Silva, also making his first class debut, took 6 for 46) to dismiss them for 107, and Galle won by four runs.
He captained Sri Lanka under-19 in a two-match series against Pakistan under-19 in October 2015, scoring 334 runs at an average of 167.00, with a double-century and a century.
Captaincy
In December 2015 he was named as the captain of Sri Lanka's squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
