lastodiyear testdebutagainst deliveries odishirt columns testcap catches/stumpings year birth_date odidebutdate bowling tenfor country club fivefor odicap batting name lasttestyear fullname birth_place column international odidebutagainst lastodidate testdebutdate lasttestagainst source lastodiagainst date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches odidebutyear article_title
2011 new zealand 1,152 1,470 20,994 5,846 72 4 71 4 ; 95 / & ndash ; 39 / & ndash / ; & ndash ; 9 / & ndash 2008 -- 2005 2003 -- 2004 1998 -- 2003 1996 -- -- 1997 1998 present 2006 -- present 2010 2005 2004 31 december 1979 6 january right arm leg break 0 n/a 2 n/a sri lanka basnahira kalutara south ragama kent gloucestershire galle tamil union nondescripts 0 0 14 4 127 right-handed malinga bandara 2006 herath mudiyanselage charitha malinga bandara kalutara , sri lanka test odi fc la true new zealand 1 april 27 may pakistan http://www.cricketarchive.com/archive/players/7/7250/7250.html cricketarchive india 1979 12 31 yes 124 160 3,430 1,126 1998 16 36 431 189 3 april 0/0 0/0 1/14 0/3 8 31 151 137 2006 malinga bandara

malinga bandara

herath mudiyanselage charitha malinga bandara -lrb- born 31 december 1979 -rrb- , commonly known as malinga bandara , he studied at the kalutara vidyalaya , he is a sri lankan test and one-day international cricketer .
he is a right-handed batsman and also bowls legbreaks .
bandara made his test debut against new zealand in 1998 but performed poorly and was subsequently dropped .
a useful performance against england ` a ' in march 2005 -lrb- securing match-figures of eleven for 126 -rrb- resulted in a test recall in december .
he finished the three-test series against india with nine wickets at an average of 32.88 .
bandara made his odi debut against new zealand in january 2006 at wellington and was highly successful in the tournament , taking fourteen wickets at an average of 23.92 , a strike rate of 29.2 , and an economy rate of 4.90 , bettering his more famous spin twin muttiah muralitharan .
he took his best bowling figures of four for 31 against south africa in the final vb series round robin match at the bellerive oval , hobart , on 7 february 2006 .
this performance ensured sri lanka 's place in the finals against australia .
he was subsequently ignored for pakistan 's tour of sri lanka in 2005/2006 and missed out on the test series in england in 2006 .
in sri lankan domestic cricket , bandara represents galle cricket club .
having spent the previous two summers at normandy cc of the surrey championship , turning out in 55 games for the club , he also played county cricket for english county gloucestershire during the 2005 season , he was so successful with both bat and ball that he was named `` gloucestershire player of the season '' .
he joined kent in 2010 .
