Nuwan Kulasekara

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nuwan Kulasekara
Occupation	Cricketer
Date Of Birth	Jul 22, 1982(1982-07-22)
Age	42
Birthplace	Nittambuwa
Country	Sri Lanka
Birth City	Western
Horoscope	Cancer

Nuwan Kulasekara Biography

Nuwan Kulasekara is one of the most popular and richest Cricketer who was born on July 22, 1982 in Nittambuwa, Western, Sri Lanka. Kulasekara Mudiyanselage Dinesh Kulasekara (Sinhala nuvn kulseekr born 22nd July, 1982) has been a Sri Lankan cricketer who played for the Sri Lanka national cricket team in all three forms that the sport plays. He is widely considered to be one of the top swing bowlers. Kulasekara was ranked first among the ODI bowlers’ rankings on March 11, 2009 and remained there until the 26th of September the same the year (the the only Sri Lankan to do so). He attended Bandaranayake College, Gampaha.

In the Pakistan series played at home the year 2009 Kulasekara had the most wickets during the three-match test series. He was awarded the man-of the- match award for his bowling skills during the test two. Sri Lanka won the series by 2-0. Kulasekara was awarded the title of player-of-the-series. He took 17 wickets with an average 15.05 and an economic of 2.67. His 4 for 37 marks the third time he has scored four wickets in the two previous tests he played.

In 2008, Kulasekara took 4 for 40 against India. During the Bangladesh tri- series, he helped his team defeat Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. On 25 January 2009, Kulasekara was number two in the ICC rankings for ODI bowlers. He took 45 wickets for an average of 20.97, which included five wickets in the last two ODIs of the series against Pakistan.

Kulasekara was on the 2009 World ODI team (captained by MS Dhoni), which was announced during the ICC Awards. On 23 May 2010 against New Zealand, he ripped through New Zealand’s batting with three wickets in his first over and ended with three for four runs. Sri Lanka won the match by seven wickets, and Kulasekara was man of the match. He was named to the test squad for the West Indies series in 2010.

On the 29th of April, 2009 Kulasekara got called up to be part of the Kings XI Punjab squad as an emergency replacement for injured Australian batsman Shaun Marsh. He was a part of in the Chennai Super Kings for the 2011 Indian Premier League season.

Nuwan Kulasekara Net Worth

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

Kulasekara and Malinga led Malinga and Kulasekara led the Sri Lankan team since their debut in 2003 and 2004 when they teamed up to win matches. When they played an Twenty20 international match against England in Bristol and Bristol, they scored the match-winning combination of three wickets and 30 scores in just seven innings. Sri Lanka won the match by nine wickets.

Kulasekara played the One Day International debut against England in Dambulla on the 18th of November, 2003. He scored 2-19 when England lost to just 88, as well as Sri Lanka took less than 14 overs to prevail in 10 wickets. Kulasekara made his test cricket debut in the match against New Zealand in Napier, New Zealand on 4 April 2005. It was Sri Lanka’s 100th cap in the test. The match was a success for Kulasekara, who did not take a wicket and also scored an unbeaten duck after the game was drawn. Kulasekara took the Twenty20 International debut on 11 October 2008 in Pakistan. He scored 36 runs over 3.5 overs, however Pakistan defeated Pakistan with three wickets.

Kulasekara topped the 2008 ICC ODI rankings for bowlers with 724 points. He took 47 wickets at 20.97 in 29 matches, with a strike rate of 28.00 and an economy rate of 4.45. Kulasekara was ranked number one among ODI bowlers on 11 March 2009, remaining in that position until 26 September of that year. The retirement of Chaminda Vaas and the inconsistency of Lasith Malinga helped him to emerge as the star strike bowler of the Sri Lankan side. His spell of 4 for 41 at Colombo was nominated as one of the best ODI bowling performances of the year by ESPNCricinfo.

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Kulasekara used a long run–up and the seam to move both ways to trouble the batsman. Primarily an inswing bowler, he was seldom overly aggressive to batsmen. Kulasekara also developed an outswinger delivery.

Facts & Trivia

Nuwan Ranked on the list of most popular Cricketer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sri Lanka. Nuwan Kulasekara celebrates birthday on July 22 of every year.

On 13 June 2013, against England in 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, Kulasekara helped skipper Kumar Sangakkara score a century and guided Sri Lanka to victory. Sangakkara and Kulasekara added an unbeaten 110 runs for the fourth wicket. In the powerplay, Kulasekara launched Graeme Swann’s off-spin for two successive leg-side sixes and continued to an unbeaten 58 from 38 balls. Soon after Sangakkara scored his hundred, he fell in mid-pitch while running. Recognizing the danger of being run out at the wicket-keeper’s end, Kulasekara ran alongside him to ensure that he (not Sangakkara) would be run out. After the Champions Trophy, Sri Lanka went to the West Indies for a triangular series with India. During the match against the West Indies, Kulasekara dislocated the ring finger of his left hand.