Kumar Dharmasena
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Kumar Dharmasena is a former Sri Lanka
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er and current Umpire. He was a member of World Cup Winning Cricket Team 1996 for Sri Lanka. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. His first foray into international cricket was in 1994 against South Africa
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His obscure action makes him perfect for bowling in one-day matches, yet in recent times Dharmasena has also proved a useful batsman, especially since he was pulled back in 1998 by the ICC
for overstretching his action to illegal proportions. Having being cleared in July 2000, he has played for the one-day team on several occasions since, but has rarely played Test cricket.
Kumar is the 59th Sri Lanka Test Cap (Sri Lanka Vs South Africa at Colombo Sinhalese sports Club 1993)
He started his cricketing career as a teenager at Nalanda College Colombo.
currently he is working as umpire for international cricket matches
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er and current Umpire. He was a member of World Cup Winning Cricket Team 1996 for Sri Lanka. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. His first foray into international cricket was in 1994 against South Africa
South African cricket team
The South African national cricket team represent South Africa in international cricket. They are administrated by Cricket South Africa.South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council, also known as ICC, with Test and One Day International, or ODI, status...
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His obscure action makes him perfect for bowling in one-day matches, yet in recent times Dharmasena has also proved a useful batsman, especially since he was pulled back in 1998 by the ICC
International Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...
for overstretching his action to illegal proportions. Having being cleared in July 2000, he has played for the one-day team on several occasions since, but has rarely played Test cricket.
Kumar is the 59th Sri Lanka Test Cap (Sri Lanka Vs South Africa at Colombo Sinhalese sports Club 1993)
He started his cricketing career as a teenager at Nalanda College Colombo.
currently he is working as umpire for international cricket matches
External links
- Kumara Dharmasena - a cricket umpire
- Kumar Dharmasena - the schoolboy star 1989 figured prominently in World Cup win 1996
- Ananda-NalandaAnanda-NalandaAnanda - Nalanda is a cricket match played between Ananda College Colombo, and Nalanda College Colombo. It was first played in 1924. Over the years both schools has produced many world famous cricketers....