Personal Information

Full Name Frank Dimuth Madushanka Karunaratne
Born April 21, 1988 Colombo
Age 36 Years, 5 Months, 14 Days
National Side Sri Lanka
Batting Style Left Handed
Bowling Right-arm medium
Sport Cricket

Ranking

Test ODI T20
Batting 16 142 -
Bowling 149 408 -

Man of the Match

Test ODI T20 World Cup CL
6 1 - 0 -

Career Information

Teams Played Sri Lanka, Basnahira North, Sri Lankan Board XI, Sri Lanka Cricket Combined XI, Sri Lanka A, Sri Lankan Invitation XI, Sinhalese Sports Club, Yorkshire, Wayamba, Sri Lanka Under-19, Basnahira Cricket Dundee, Kandurata Uva Combined, Sri Lanka Cricket Board President XI, Basnahira Greens, Western Troopers, Colombo, Kandy, Galle, Hambantota Troopers, Sri Lankans, Kandy District, Dambulla, Shinepukur Cricket Club, Kandy Falcons
Career Span

Frank Dimuth Madushanka Karunaratne Overall Stats

Batting & Fielding Performance

M I N/O R HS 100s 50s 4s 6s AVG S/R CT ST Ducks R/O
Test
95 182 7 7092 244 v BAN 16 39 750 12 40.52 51.71 59 0 12 6 1 SL Sri Lanka SL
ODI
50 46 4 1316 103 v IRE 1 11 131 1 31.33 79.56 17 0 4 0 2 SL Sri Lanka SL
World Cup
13 11 1 274 97 v AUS 0 2 26 0 27.40 70.98 5 0 2 0 2 SL Sri Lanka SL
First-class
112 180 18 8352 212 v EN-A 31 32 1000 20 51.55 63.10 119 1 13 3 4 - - -
List A
124 120 12 4159 132 v KYC 6 26 402 17 38.50 77.24 60 0 3 10 5 - - -
ttwenty_domestic
34 33 1 543 80 v KAN 0 3 68 3 16.96 108.81 17 1 1 4 6 - - -
Youth ODI
25 25 0 625 78 v BAN-U19 0 4 82 5 25.00 70.78 7 0 1 2 22 - - -

Bowling Performance

I O M R W Best 3s 5s AVG E/R S/R Mtc
Test
14 51.2 5 199 2 1/12 v SA 0 0 99.50 3.87 154.00 14 1 SL Sri Lanka SL
ODI
2 2.4 0 18 0 0/7 v WI 0 0 - 6.75 - 2 2 SL Sri Lanka SL
World Cup
1 1 0 7 0 0/7 v WI 0 0 - 7.00 - 1 2 SL Sri Lanka SL
First-class
20 86.4 9 301 2 1/6 v WI-A 0 0 150.50 3.47 260.00 19 4 - - -
List A
5 11.2 1 46 3 2/13 v SSC 0 0 15.33 4.05 22.66 5 5 - - -
Youth ODI
10 36 0 183 4 1/17 v ENG-U19 0 0 45.75 5.08 54.00 10 22 - - -

Frank Dimuth Madushanka Karunaratne Profile

A top-order left-handed batsman, Dimuth attended the St. Josephs College in Colombo, which has also given Sri Lanka many legends including, Chaminda Vaas. Karunaratne was very impressive in the domestic circuit as well as at the U-19 level. Looking at his excellent performances at the domestic level, the young southpaw got his maiden international call-up and Dimuth made his ODI debut against England.


He was included in Sri Lanka's Test squad touring South Africa in 2011. Though he did not get to play in any of the matches. Being benched in the next few series, he finally found a place in the playing XI after their leading opener Tillakaratne Dilshan got injured. He made his Test debut against New Zealand on 17th November 2012. He got to open the innings with Paranavitana but had a miserable start to his Test career as he got out on a duck. Though he compensated in the second innings of the match as he scored an unbeaten 60 and took his team to victory. His Test career got a boost after he struck his maiden Test century against New Zealand where he scored a tenacious knock of 152 runs which came from 363 balls.


Dimuth Karunaratne was the member of the 15-man squad for the 2015 World Cup but had a forgetful outing as he broke a bone of his right hand during a practice match and was sent back home. Kusal Perera was announced as his replacement. Since then, Dimuth's prime focus was in the longest format of the game. 2017 was a fruitful year for him as he ended up scoring 1031 runs in Tests and became the second player after Dean Elgar to score more than 1000 Test runs that year. His career-best innings till date has come against Pakistan in a Test match held in Dubai in 2017 where he fell just 4 runs short of his double century. His Test form continued in 2018 where he scored 743 runs in 9 matches at an average of 46.43. His outstanding performances led to his inclusion in the World Test XI by the ICC.


After Sri Lanka's former captain Dinesh Chandimal started facing issues with his consistency and form, he was dropped and Karunaratne was given the responsible job to captain the Sri Lankan side. Under his captaincy, the Lankan Lions defeated the South African team in South Africa in Tests and sealed the series 2-0. Thus, Sri Lanka became the first Asian team to win a Test series in South Africa. In 2019, Dimuth was named the captain of the Sri Lanka team for the upcoming ODI World Cup. Leading a pretty imbalanced team, Dimuth failed to do any magic and the Islanders had a mediocre campaign as they ended at the sixth position in the points table.