Hettige Don Rumesh Lahiru Thirimanne, known as Lahiru Thirimanne is a Sri Lankan international cricketer, and a former ODI captain.
29 Facts About Lahiru Thirimanne
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Lahiru Thirimanne is a left-handed opening batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.
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Lahiru Thirimanne had acted as a vice-captain of the Sri Lanka One Day International team, when he was dropped from the team after poor performances.
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Lahiru Thirimanne was recalled in 2018 for the national team.
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Lahiru Thirimanne was the leading run-scorer for Colombo during the tournament, with 198 runs in three matches.
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Lahiru Thirimanne made his One Day International debut in early 2010.
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Lahiru Thirimanne made his Test debut against England at the Rose Bowl in June 2011, coming into the side for the injured Tillakaratne Dilshan.
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Lahiru Thirimanne reached a deserved century by cutting Xavier Doherty backward of point for the winning runs.
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Lahiru Thirimanne's century is only the fifth by a Sri Lankan batsman in a chase against Australia.
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Lahiru Thirimanne won player of the match award for his performance.
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Lahiru Thirimanne was strong on the off side against the seamers.
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Lahiru Thirimanne put on 203 run partnership with Dinesh Chandimal.
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The 203-run stand between Chandimal and Lahiru Thirimanne is the third-highest fifth-wicket partnership for Sri Lanka in Tests against Bangladesh.
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Lahiru Thirimanne scored two magnificent hundreds against Pakistan, where he finally ended up being the highest run scorer in the tournament with 2 centuries with the average of 55.80.
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Lahiru Thirimanne was adjudged man of the match of final and player of the series.
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Lahiru Thirimanne was not included in the international squad since January 2016 due to a string of poor performances in both domestic and international arena.
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Lahiru Thirimanne was not initially selected for the limited over series against India, but after the injury to Danushka Gunathilaka, and suspension of Upul Tharanga, Lahiru Thirimanne along with Dinesh Chandimal were brought into the ODI side.
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Lahiru Thirimanne played in the third ODI and scored 80 runs, which was the highest scored for Sri Lanka in the match.
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On 4 June 2019, in Sri Lanka's match against Afghanistan, Lahiru Thirimanne scored his 3,000th run in ODI cricket.
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Lahiru Thirimanne scored 111 runs hitting 12 boundaries before being dismissed by Sam Curran.
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Lahiru Thirimanne meanwhile recorded consecutive 50-plus scores for the first time in his entire Test career.
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Lahiru Thirimanne accomplished this by simply refusing to attack deliveries outside off, thus forcing the bowlers to adopt straighter lines.
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Lahiru Thirimanne is the second highest test run scorer in 2021, only behind Joe Root.
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In that process Lahiru Thirimanne scored 2000 test runs and reached his third test century, his second century in 2021.
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Lahiru Thirimanne scored 140 runs in the match where Sri Lanka posted a huge first innings total of 493.
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Lahiru Thirimanne captained the cricket team for 2014 Asian Games at Incheon, where Sri Lanka won the gold medal by defeating Afghanistan in the final.
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Lahiru Thirimanne took 2 wickets at that match, and scored 45 runs as an opener.
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Lahiru Thirimanne captained the 6th and 7th ODIs of the series, where 6th ODI ended with a huge defeat, and 7th ODI was comfortably won under his captaincy.
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Therefore, Lahiru Thirimanne was announced as the ODI captain for the 3-match series.