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| Full name | Umagiliya Durage Upul Chandana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1972-05-07)7 May 1972 (age 53) Galle, Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Legbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 77) | 12 March 1999 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 11 April 2005 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 78) | 14 April 1994 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 25 July 2007 v Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DeshabanduUmagiliya Durage Upul Chandana (born 7 May 1972), popularly known asUpul Chandana, is a former Sri Lankancricketer who played both Tests and ODIs. He was more specifically aleg spin bowler and was also an outstandingfielder. He was a part of the Sri Lankan squad which won the1996 Cricket World Cup, however he did not play any matches during the tournament. Chandana is considered to be one of the best leg spinners who ever played for Sri Lanka. He was also a competent lower-order batsman, having scored a total of seven half-centuries at international level.
Upul Chandana started his cricketing career as a teenager atMahinda College,Galle.
Chandana has played county cricket in England forGloucestershire County Cricket Club and representedNondescripts in Sri Lankan. He made hisTwenty20 debut on 17 August 2004, forNondescripts Cricket Club in the2004 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.[1]
Chandana joined theIndian Cricket League, playing for the Kolkata Tigers and ICL World XI, and with four other Sri Lankan cricketers was banned, but the decision was lifted on 2009.
Despite making his ODI debut in 1994 aged 21, Chandana had to wait for five years to be included in the Test team. It came in theAsian Test Championship Final in March 1999 against Pakistan. Chandana bowled 47.5 overs in the first innings and finished with6 for 179.[2]
Over the next few years he made sporadic appearances for Sri Lanka and in 2002 he was named as captain of Sri Lanka A, when they played an unofficial Test series againstKenya and Chandana topped both the batting and bowling averages. This helped him work his way back into the side in 2003 and after a match-winning innings againstWest Indies atBridgetown, Chasing 313 for victory, he was promoted up the order to 5 and smashed 89 off just 71 deliveries with 6 sixes. Since then he was a regular player in the one day team for the next few years.
WhenMuttiah Muralitharan withdrew from the 2004 tour to Australia, Chandana came into the Test side as the main spin bowler. Despite being expensive, he took aten wicket haul in the 2nd Test atCazalys Stadium inCairns and is the only Sri Lankan bowler to take ten wickets in a test match inAustralia.[3][4][5]
Upul Chandana has the record for the highest test score when batting at number 9 for Sri Lanka(92).[6]
Chandana retired from international cricket on 15 October 2007 after Bangladesh tour. In an emotional press conference, he said that he was forced to take the retirement decision because of the politics that existed in the team selections.[7]
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