Ashantha de Mel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ashantha de Mel
Occupation	Cricketer
Date Of Birth	May 9, 1959(1959-05-09)
Age	65
Birthplace	Colombo
Country	Sri Lanka
Birth City	Western Province
Horoscope	Gemini

Ashantha de Mel Biography

Ashantha de Mel is one of the most popular and richest Cricketer who was born on May 9, 1959 in Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka. Ashantha Lakdasa Francis de Mel (born 9 May 1959 in Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan Test and ODI cricketer and selector for the national team. He bowled Sri Lanka’s first ball in a Test match. He was one of few Sri Lanka bowlers in the 1980s above medium pace, and he was also said to have the ability to get the ball to swing out.

In November 2018, he was named as the chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket’s National Selection Panel. He previously served in the role in 2012.

His career was ended in 1987 due to a knee injury, but he continued within the Sri Lankan cricket system, and in May 2004 he was appointed head of selectors in Sri Lanka. That lasted for one year, whereupon he was sacked, only one month after the sports minister Jeewan Kumaranatunga had announced that he would be retained for another year. De Mel has also played bridge, appearing in the Commonwealth Games playing this sport.

Ashantha de Mel Net Worth

Ashantha de Mel is one of the richest Cricketer from Sri Lanka. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ashantha de Mel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After this, he usually put in solid performances, but the closest he came to the 1983 heroics was in a 1985 Test with India. The visitors had chosen to bat, but de Mel ran through the middle order, getting players like Ravi Shastri, Kapil Dev and Dilip Vengsarkar out, and finishing with five for 64. Sri Lanka led by 129 runs on first innings, but de Mel failed to take a wicket in the second innings as India drew the match.

His finest moment as a bowler arguably came at the 1983 World Cup in England, where he used the helpful conditions to register his two only ODI five-wicket- hauls. First, at Headingley against Pakistan, he took five for 39, but got little help from his teammates and couldn’t quite carry the team to the target, being last out as Sri Lanka needed 12 more to win off 10 balls. Two days later, however, they moved to The County Ground, Derby, and de Mel once again took five wickets – this time for only 32 runs, as New Zealand crumbled to 181 and Sri Lanka won by three wickets, their only win in the tournament. De Mel returned Sri Lanka’s best bowling figures in every match. He was the tournament’s second highest wicket taker with 17 wickets, one behind India’s Roger Binny. Many years later, it was discovered that one of the wickets credited to Rumesh Ratnayake in Sri Lanka’s first round match against England was actually taken by De Mel, but the scorecards still don’t reflect that.

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Yelena Ranked on the list of most popular Cricketer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sri Lanka. Ashantha de Mel celebrates birthday on May 9 of every year.