Dulip Prasanna Samaraweera was born on 12 February 1972 and is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played in seven Test matches and five One Day Internationals for his country from 1993 to 1995.
17 Facts About Dulip Samaraweera
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Dulip Samaraweera was a right-handed opening batsmen and occasional right arm off-spinner.
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Dulip Samaraweera's younger brother Thilan Samaraweera is a former Test, ODI and T20I player of the Sri Lankan national cricket team.
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Dulip Samaraweera's brother in law Bathiya Perera is a former first class cricketer of Sri Lanka.
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Dulip Samaraweera made his Twenty20 debut on 17 August 2004, for Colts Cricket Club in the 2004 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.
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Dulip Samaraweera continued his first-class career for Colts until retiring in 2003.
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Dulip Samaraweera scored over 7000 runs at first-class level including 16 centuries and 34 half centuries but never established himself at international level.
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Dulip Samaraweera was selected for the ODI team for his debut against the West Indies in Sharjah in November 1993, in which he only managed three runs.
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Dulip Samaraweera played four more times, aggregating 91 runs and making his top-scoring of 49 in a successful run-chase against India in Jalandhar in early 1994.
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Dulip Samaraweera made his Test debut against the West Indies at Moratuwa in December 1993, after replacing Chandika Hathurusingha as an opener.
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Dulip Samaraweera made a slow 16 from 107 balls on debut.
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Dulip Samaraweera made his top score of 42 in his next Test against India in Lucknow and played the whole India series, before touring New Zealand in early 1995 when he played his final two Test matches.
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Dulip Samaraweera was dropped, ending his international career, in which he failed to pass 50 in any of his 14 innings.
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Dulip Samaraweera was named interim head coach of the Victorian women's team in November 2023, and appointed to the full-time role in May in 2024.
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Dulip Samaraweera resigned less than a fortnight later following a disagreement over the appointment of an assistant batting coach.
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Dulip Samaraweera had requested the appointment of his brother, Thilan Dulip Samaraweera, to fill the assistant batting coach role, but this request was declined based on Cricket Victoria's policy that one relative should not report to another.
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On 19 September 2024 Dulip Samaraweera was banned from holding any position within Australian cricket for 20 years after he was found to have committed a serious breach of the Cricket Australia code of conduct.