Sanjeeva Ranatunga (born 25 April 1969) is a former Sri Lankan
cricket
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er who played in 9
Test matches and 13
One Day International
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s from 1994 to 1997.
Family
He is the brother of former
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...
captain
Arjuna Ranatunga
Deshamanya Arjuna Ranatunga (; ; born 1 December 1963), is a Sri Lankan politician and former cricketer, who was the 1996 Cricket World Cup winning captain for Sri Lanka, and scored the winning boundary in the final. He is regarded as the pion ...
,
Dammika Ranatunga,
Nishantha Ranatunga and
Prasanna Ranatunga Ruwan Ranatunga.
International career
He has scored 2 centuries in Tests; 118 and 100* against Zimbabwe in consecutive Tests at Harare Sports Club and Queens Sports Club in 1994. His other notable performances are a hard-fought 60 and 65 against Australia at Adelaide in 1996. His highest ODI score of 70 came against Pakistan at R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo in 1994 which earned him the Man of the Match Award.
References
1969 births
Living people
Sri Lanka Test cricketers
Sri Lanka One Day International cricketers
Sri Lankan cricketers
Basnahira North cricketers
Basnahira South cricketers
Sinhalese Sports Club cricketers
Kandurata cricketers
Cricketers from Colombo
20th-century Sri Lankan sportsmen
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