Shehan Madushanka

Devapurage Shehan Madushanka Kumara or commonly as Shehan Madushanka (born 10 May 1995) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays limited over internationals. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast medium bowler. He is a past pupil of Joseph Vaz College, Wennappuwa.

Personal information
Full name
Devapurage Shehan Madushanka Kumara
Born (1995-05-10) 10 May 1995
Wennappuwa, Sri Lanka
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm fast-medium
RoleBowler
International information
National side
Only ODI (cap 186)27 January 2018 v Bangladesh
ODI shirt no.20
T20I debut (cap 75)15 February 2018 v Bangladesh
Last T20I18 February 2018 v Bangladesh
T20I shirt no.20
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2017–presentTamil Union
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I LA
Matches 1 2 4
Runs scored 7 - 38
Batting average 7.00 - 12.66
100s/50s 0/0 -/- 0/0
Top score 7 - 31
Balls bowled 37 31 175
Wickets 3 2 7
Bowling average 8.66 31.00 21.57
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 3/26 2/23 3/26
Catches/stumpings 0/0 0/0 1/0
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 18 February 2018

Domestic career

Madushanka made his first class debut against Zimbabwe Development XI.[1] He made his List A debut for Kilinochchi District in the 2016–17 Districts One Day Tournament on 15 March 2017.[2]

In March 2018, Madushanka was named in Dambulla's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament.[3][4] The following month, he was also named in Dambulla's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.[5]

In August 2018, Madushanka was named in Dambulla's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League.[6] In March 2019, he was named in Galle's squad for the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.[7]

International career

In January 2018, Madushanka was named in Sri Lanka's One Day International (ODI) squad for the 2017–18 Bangladesh Tri-Nation Series.[8] He made his ODI debut for Sri Lanka against Bangladesh in the finale match of the tri-series on 27 January 2018.[9] In the match, he became the fourth bowler and second Sri Lankan to take a hat-trick on debut in an ODI.[10]

In February 2018, Madushanka was named in Sri Lanka's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Bangladesh.[11] He made his T20I debut for Sri Lanka against Bangladesh on 15 February 2018.[12] In the second T20I, Madushanka took two early wickets in one over before sustaining a hamstring injury and was later ruled out from bowling. However, his injury didn’t affect Sri Lanka as they won the match along with the series.[13] However, due to his injury, he missed out the Nidahas Trophy in March 2018,[14] and several other bilateral series.

In May 2018, Madushanka was one of the 33 cricketers to be awarded a national contract by Sri Lanka Cricket ahead of the 2018–19 season.[15][16] In December 2018, he was named in Sri Lanka team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup.[17]

Drug Incident

In May 2020, Madushanka was arrested for allegedly being in possession of heroin and then suspended from all forms of cricket.[18] He was carrying over two grams and 700 mg of heroin with his friend when detained in the town of Pannala by Police.[19]

References
  1. "Sri Lanka Development Emerging Team tour of South Africa and Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Development XI v Sri Lanka Development Emerging Team at Harare, Aug 28-31, 2016". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  2. "Districts One Day Tournament, Northern Group: Jaffna District v Kilinochchi District at Colombo (Moors), Mar 15, 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  3. "Cricket: Mixed opinions on Provincial tournament". Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 26 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  4. "All you need to know about the SL Super Provincial Tournament". Daily Sports. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  5. "SLC Super Provincial 50 over tournament squads and fixtures". The Papare. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  6. "SLC T20 League 2018 squads finalized". The Papare. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  7. "Squads, Fixtures announced for SLC Provincial 50 Overs Tournament". The Papare. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  8. "Rookie fast bowler Shehan Madushanka in SL squad for tri-series". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  9. "Final (D/N), Bangladesh Tri-Nation Series at Dhaka, Jan 27 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  10. "Madushanka's debut hat-trick seals tri-series title". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  11. "Sri Lanka pick Asitha for T20 series, Jeevan Mendis returns". ESPN Cricinfo. 7 February 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  12. "1st T20I (N), Sri Lanka Tour of Bangladesh at Dhaka, Feb 15 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  13. "Mendis stars in thumping win as SL sweep tour". ESPN Cricinfo. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  14. "Injured Shehan Madushanka in doubt for Nidahas Trophy". ESPN Cricinfo. 18 February 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  15. "Sri Lanka assign 33 national contracts with pay hike". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  16. "Sri Lankan players to receive pay hike". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  17. "Sri Lanka Squad for the ACC Emerging Teams Cup 2018". Sri Lanka Cricket. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  18. "Sri Lanka's Shehan Madushanka suspended for alleged possession of heroin". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  19. "Sri Lanka cricketer Shehan Madushanka arrested for heroin possession". Island Cricket. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
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