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| Full name | Champaka Priyadarshana Hewage Ramanayake | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1965-01-08)8 January 1965 (age 60) Galle, Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 40) | 12 February 1988 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 14 September 1993 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 49) | 8 March 1986 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 14 April 1995 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Champaka Priyadarshana Hewage Ramanayake (born 8 January 1965), orChampaka Ramanayake, is a former Sri Lankancricketer who played in 18Test matches and 62One Day Internationals from 1986 to 1995.
Champaka is a highly experienced and respected international cricket coach. He worked for Sri Lanka cricket board as a national fast bowling coach for 15 years and Bangladesh national fast bowling coach as 2 years. Champaka's proudest and highest achievement is discoveringLasith Malinga at the age of 16 and guiding and coaching him to be the best fast bowler Sri Lanka ever produced and one of the best in the world.
He is the current high performance fast bowling coach of the Bangladesh national side.
Champaka was born atGalle and had his education atRichmond College.
Champaka is the only person to bowl in international cricket atRay Mitchell Oval, inMackay, Australia. The venue hosted its only international match during the1992 Cricket World Cup, and the match was washed out after his first two deliveries.[1]
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