23 Facts About Anura Tennekoon

Anura Tennekoon spelt as Anura Tennakoon was born on 29 October 1946 and is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team.

Anura Tennekoon was educated at the S Thomas' College in Mount Lavinia.

Anura Tennekoon made his ODI debut in 1975 against West Indies, leading Sri Lanka in the first Cricket World Cup of 1975.

Anura Tennekoon was the chief executive of Sri Lanka Cricket from 2000 to 2003, and is a selector for the national team.

Anura Punchi Banda Tennekoon was born in Anuradhapura to a Family from Nikaweratiya.

Anura Tennekoon eventually went on to captain the Thomian cricket team, and was chosen as Sri Lanka's best schoolboy batsman in 1964.

Anura Tennekoon had had the best batting average of 56.84 in the previous season, having scored a total of 513 runs.

Anura Tennekoon married Nelun Ramanayake, an Attorney at Law on 6 June 1974 and his marriage took a place just a year before he took the captainship to lead Sri Lanka at international level and subsequently led Sri Lanka at their first Cricket World Cup tournament.

Anura Tennekoon played his first first-class match for Ceylon against an English side in 1966, and was later picked up by the Sinhalese Sports Club.

Anura Tennekoon played for the Ceylon Board President's XI in Gopalan Trophy matches.

Anura Tennekoon was selected to tour England with the Ceylon team in 1968, but the tour was cancelled just before it was due to begin.

Anura Tennekoon made his career's highest score in a first class match against India in 1974, hitting an unbeaten 169.

Anura Tennekoon was the ninth ODI cap for Sri Lanka, and played four One Day International matches, leading the Sri Lankan side in all of them.

Anura Tennekoon captained the Sri Lankan cricket team at the inaugural Cricket World Cup of 1975, during which he played his first three ODIs.

Anura Tennekoon too was unsuccessful in this match, having been caught by David Murray off the bowling of Bernard Julien without scoring.

Anura Tennekoon made 30 runs for his team, but Pakistan easily defeated Sri Lanka.

Anura Tennekoon made the highest score and only half-century of his ODI career during this match, making 59 runs off 96 deliveries before being bowled out by Warren Stott.

Anura Tennekoon was appointed chief executive officer of Sri Lanka Cricket, the governing body for cricket in Sri Lanka, in December 2000.

Anura Tennekoon held the position until late 2003, when he resigned for personal reasons.

In 2009, Anura Tennekoon was appointed to the selection committee for the national cricket team.

Anura Tennekoon revealed that his wife had typed out the transcripts for the autobiography and he highlighted that the autobiography contains the life trajectory of how his journey as a cricketer began from schooling days.

Anura Tennekoon launched his autobiography on a special occasion at the Sinhalese Sports Club.

Anura Tennekoon handed over the first copy of his book to his former captain Michael Tissera.