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Full name Loku Hettige Danushka Dilhara
Born July 3, 1980, Colombo
Current age 28 years 152 days
Major teams Sri Lanka,Antonians Sports Club,Galle Cricket Club,Moors Sports Club,Ruhuna,Uva Province
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
8
8
0
77
29
9.62
85
90.58
0
0
8
4
3
0
T20Is
2
1
1
18
18*
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9
200.00
0
0
0
1
0
0
First-class
80
125
10
2783
211
24.20
2
10
42
0
List A
79
72
8
1203
70
18.79
0
2
30
0
Twenty20
15
13
2
178
53
16.18
0
1
4
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
8
7
282
221
6
2/30
2/30
36.83
4.70
47.0
0
0
0
T20Is
2
2
30
30
2
2/6
2/6
15.00
6.00
15.0
0
0
0
First-class
80
9681
5100
195
7/64
26.15
3.16
49.6
6
0
List A
79
2717
2002
64
4/65
4/65
31.28
4.42
42.4
1
0
0
Twenty20
15
12
200
255
7
2/6
2/6
36.42
7.65
28.5
0
0
0
Career statistics
ODI debut
Sri Lanka v India at Dambulla, Jul 30, 2005 scorecard
Last ODI
India v Sri Lanka at Vadodara, Nov 12, 2005 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut
Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe at King City (NW), Oct 10, 2008 scorecard
Last T20I
Canada v Sri Lanka at King City (NW), Oct 12, 2008 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
2000/01
Last First-class
Moors Sports Club v Colts Cricket Club at Colombo (Colts), Nov 14-16, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2000/01
Last List A
Colts Cricket Club v Moors Sports Club at Colombo (Moors), Nov 19, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Moors Sports Club v Ragama Cricket Club at Colombo (NCC), Aug 17, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Canada v Sri Lanka at King City (NW), Oct 12, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Dilhara Lokuhettige is one of the first Sri Lankan cricketers to be labeled a Twenty20 specialist. His reputation as a dangerous Twenty20 player has been built on his powerful batting - as a pinch-hitter or lower order batsman - coupled with his bustling seam bowling.
As a schoolboy, Lokuhettige captained Asoka Vidyalaya in Colombo from the Under-13 age group up to the First XI. He got his first major break towards earning a national cap when he joined Bloomfield in 1999 and met Ruchira Palliyaguru, the club's fast bowler, who recommended him to the Sri Lanka Cricket fast-bowling academy. There he came under the watchful eyes of Champaka Ramanayake, the head of the academy. Lokuhettige played one season for Antonians SC and then joined Galle CC where Ramanayake was also the coach. Lokuhettige got his international break in 2005 during the Indian Oil Cup but a side strain ruled him out of the following tours to New Zealand and Australia.
Lokuhettige is not an express fast bowler but he is accurate and can swing the ball both ways. He is a hard-hitting batsmen too, with his favourite stroke being the lofted drive. Sri Lanka's selectors started to eye him as a possible Twenty20 specialist in 2007 when he was called up to the 20-man training pool for the ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa. He also has a reputation for being a match-winner in six-a-side cricket, having played four times in the Hong Kong Sixes. In 2007 he played a crucial role in helping Sri Lanka win the tournament, smashing 30 in an over during the semi-final against New Zealand. Earlier in 2008 he excelled during the inaugural Provincial Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka and also gained experienced playing club cricket in England. Lokuhettige was called up for Sri Lanka's Twenty20 squad in September 2008. Sa'adi Thawfeeq October 2008
