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Ruvindu Gunasekera (born 20 July 1991) is a Sri Lankan-born cricketer who played One Day International cricket for Canada.[1]

Ruvindu Gunasekera

Personal information
Full name	Ruvindu Gunasekera
Born	(1991-07-20) 20 July 1991 (age 31) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Right-arm leg-break
Role	Batsman
International information
National side	Canada (2008–2014)
ODI debut (cap 57)	1 July 2008 v Bermuda
Last ODI	28 January 2014 v Netherlands
ODI shirt no.	57
T20I debut (cap 30)	13 March 2012 v Netherlands
Last T20I	26 November 2013 v Kenya
T20I shirt no.	57
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA Matches 19 8 21 47 Runs scored 455 202 896 1,184 Batting average 23.94 25.25 24.88 25.73 100s/50s 0/6 0/1 1/6 0/12 Top score 72 65 150 87 Balls bowled – – 626 161 Wickets – – 13 9 Bowling average – – 29.53 16.22 5 wickets in innings – – 0 0 10 wickets in match – – 0 0 Best bowling – – 4/34 4/37 Catches/stumpings 7/– 0/– 13/– 19/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 12 February 2018

Early life

Gunasekara was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he began playing cricket at an early age, under the influence of his father, who was a player on the Sri Lanka A cricket team. Gunasekara immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 2006. He enrolled at the University of Toronto Scarborough in 2010, pursuing a degree in management.[2]

Career

Sri Lanka

Gunasekera was a member of the team for ICC Under 19 World Cup in New Zealand.[3]

In March 2018, he was the leading run-scorer in the 2017–18 SLC Twenty20 Tournament in Sri Lanka, with 272 runs in five matches, batting for Saracens Sports Club.[4] The following month, he was also named in Dambulla's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.[5]

In August 2018, he was named in Dambulla's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League.[6] In February 2019, Sri Lanka Cricket named him as the Best Batsman in the 2017–18 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.[7]

Canada

In January 2018, he was named in Canada's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament.[8] On 3 June 2018, he was selected to play for the Vancouver Knights in the players' draft for the inaugural edition of the Global T20 Canada tournament.[9][10] In April 2019, he was named in Canada's squad for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament in Namibia.[11]

In June 2021, he was selected to take part in the Minor League Cricket tournament in the United States following the players' draft.[12][13]

References

External links

• Ruvindu Gunasekera at ESPNcricinfo

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