Chamani Roshini Seneviratne (born 14 November 1978) is a Sri Lankan-born

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er who currently plays for

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as a right-arm

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bowler and right-handed batter. She previously played internationally for

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between 1997 and 2013, appearing in one Test match, 80

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and 32

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. She scored Sri Lanka's only century in women's Test cricket, with 105 * against

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in April 1998. She also became the eighth batter to score a Test hundred on debut, and achieved the record for the highest score made by a woman when batting at number 8 or lower in women's Tests. Her 148 runs overall on debut was also the fifth-highest by a woman on Test debut. She retired from Sri Lankan cricket in January 2014, with immediate effect after refusing to attend a practice session in December 2013. In May 2018, she was named in the United Arab Emirates squad for the

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tournament. She made her

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(WT20I) debut for the UAE against the

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in the World Twenty20 Qualifier on 7 July 2018. On 19 February 2019, in the

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match against

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, she took her first five-wicket haul in WT20Is. In June 2020, Seneviratne was stranded in the UAE, after losing her coaching job in

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due to the

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* * 1978 births Living people People from Anuradhapura Sportspeople from North Central Province, Sri Lanka Sri Lankan women cricketers Sri Lanka women Test cricketers Sri Lanka women One Day International cricketers Sri Lanka women Twenty20 International cricketers Women cricketers who made a century on Test debut Sri Lanka women cricket captains Sri Lankan emigrants to the United Arab Emirates Sri Lankan expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates Emirati women cricketers United Arab Emirates women Twenty20 International cricketers Dual international cricketers Slimline Sport Club women cricketers Colts Cricket Club women cricketers Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club women cricketers {{SriLanka-cricket-bio-stub