Country: | Sri Lanka |
Fullname: | Devapurage Shehan Madushanka Kumara |
Birth Date: | 10 May 1995 |
Birth Place: | Wennappuwa, Sri Lanka |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Right arm fast-medium |
Role: | Bowler |
International: | true |
Internationalspan: | 2018–present |
Oneodi: | yes |
Odidebutdate: | 27 January |
Odidebutyear: | 2018 |
Odidebutagainst: | Bangladesh |
Odicap: | 186 |
Odishirt: | 20 |
T20idebutagainst: | Bangladesh |
T20idebutdate: | 15 February |
T20idebutyear: | 2018 |
T20icap: | 75 |
Lastt20iagainst: | Bangladesh |
Lastt20idate: | 18 February |
Lastt20iyear: | 2018 |
T20ishirt: | 20 |
Club1: | Tamil Union |
Year1: | 2017–present |
Columns: | 3 |
Column1: | ODI |
Matches1: | 1 |
Runs1: | 7 |
Bat Avg1: | 7.00 |
100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
Top Score1: | 7 |
Deliveries1: | 37 |
Wickets1: | 3 |
Bowl Avg1: | 8.66 |
Fivefor1: | 0 |
Tenfor1: | 0 |
Best Bowling1: | 3/26 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 0/0 |
Column2: | T20I |
Matches2: | 2 |
Runs2: | - |
Bat Avg2: | - |
100S/50S2: | -/- |
Top Score2: | - |
Deliveries2: | 31 |
Wickets2: | 2 |
Bowl Avg2: | 31.00 |
Fivefor2: | 0 |
Tenfor2: | 0 |
Best Bowling2: | 2/23 |
Catches/Stumpings2: | 0/0 |
Column3: | LA |
Matches3: | 4 |
Runs3: | 38 |
Bat Avg3: | 12.66 |
100S/50S3: | 0/0 |
Top Score3: | 31 |
Deliveries3: | 175 |
Wickets3: | 7 |
Bowl Avg3: | 21.57 |
Fivefor3: | 0 |
Tenfor3: | 0 |
Best Bowling3: | 3/26 |
Catches/Stumpings3: | 1/0 |
Date: | 18 February 2018 |
Source: | ESPNcricinfo |
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.
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]
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]
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]