Mahesh Hemantha was a

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

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er. He was a right-handed batsman. Hemantha made his first-class debut during the

Saravanamuttu Trophy The Major League Tournament (formerly known as the Premier Trophy) is the main domestic first-class cricket competition in Sri Lanka. It was established in 1938 and has existed under a number of different names. Matches before the 1988–89 seas ...

competition of 1991–92, playing for

Kalutara Physical Culture Centre Kalutara Physical Culture Centre was a first class cricket team in Sri Lanka which featured in the Saravanamuttu Trophy competition of 1991-92 and the 2016–17 Premier League Tournament Tier B. List of players The following is a list of player ...

. Hemantha's career began unsteadily, though in the last of his six matches for the team, in their only year of

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, he hit a career-best 163, which single-handedly accounted for nearly 70 percent of the total number of runs he scored in his entire first-class career – and the best first-class score for any Kalutara player. While Kalutara did not enter first-class cricket the following season, Hemantha switched teams to play for

Antonians Sports Club Antonians Sports Club is a first-class cricket team in Sri Lanka. It played first-class cricket from 1992–93 to 2002–03, and again in 2010–11. List of players See also * List of Sri Lankan cricket teams References External links Ant ...

. Hemantha slotted into the lower order for most of the games he played for Antonians, he played his final three innings as an opener alongside team-mate Pathmanath Perera.

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