Nuwan Zoysa

Nuwan Zoysa

Personal information
Full name	Demuni Nuwan Tharanga Zoysa
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling style	Left-arm fast-medium
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	ODIs
Matches	30	94
Runs scored	288	343
Batting average	8.47	13.19
100s/50s	-/-	-/-
Top score	28*	47*
Balls bowled	4422	4259
Wickets	64	108
Bowling average	33.70	29.75
5 wickets in innings	1	1
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	5/20	5/26
Catches/stumpings	4/-	13/-
Source: [1], 9 February 2006

Demuni Nuwan Tharanga Zoysa (born May 13, 1978 in Colombo) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He was a lanky left-arm seam bowler, who played 30 Tests and 95 ODI's for Sri Lanka. In his eighth Test, Zoysa became the first player in the history to take a hat-trick off the first three balls of the match. He achieved this against Zimbabwe at Harare in November 1999. In his first three balls of the Test match he took the wickets of Trevor Gripper, Murray Goodwin and Neil Johnson.

Zoysa made his first class debut in 1996/97 and during his first season he took his career best figures of 7 for 58, playing for Sinhalese Sports Club. He made his Test debut soon after in Dunedin against New Zealand. He has gone on to take over 100 ODI wickets for Sri Lanka, the ninth to have achieved the milestone.

An aggressive lower order batsman, Zoysa once won an ODI game against Australia with an unbeaten 47. He was also bought by the Deccan Chargers Franchise in the IPL but he was removed from the team for his poor performances.

External links

• Cricinfo page on Nuwan Zoyza

Persondata
Name	Zoysa, Nuwan school = Isipathana College Colombo . 05
Alternative names
Short description	Sri Lankan cricketer
Date of birth	May 13, 1978
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death