Upul Tharanga

Quick Facts

Full Name	Upul Tharanga
Occupation	Cricketer
Date Of Birth	Feb 2, 1985(1985-02-02)
Age	39
Birthplace	Balapitiya
Country	Sri Lanka
Birth City	Balapitiya
Horoscope	Pisces

Upul Tharanga Biography

Upul Tharanga is one of the most popular and richest Cricketer who was born on February 2, 1985 in Balapitiya, Balapitiya, Sri Lanka. Born on 2 February 1985 as the youngest of the family, Tharanga was born at Balapitiya General Hospital. His father Warushavithanage Bhadrasoma was a fish market dealer. His mother R.J Padma is a housewife and Tharanga has one elder brother Nuwan Tharanga and one elder sister Kumesha Manori. Though his brother used to enjoy swimming, Tharanga chose cricket at the younger age. He first attended Devananda College, Ambalangoda, and passed grade 5 scholarship in

1995. Since then, Tharanga had his secondary education at Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda until ordinary level. However, with many cricket tours, he could not complete education towards advanced level. He started his cricket career as a teenager at his school.

On the 2006 tour of England he really began to develop, particularly in the one-day game, scoring over 300 runs in Sri Lanka’s 5–0 whitewash of the hosts. In addition, Tharanga is also well known for taking part in a record-breaking first wicket partnership with Sanath Jayasuriya in the final match of this series. He finished off with 109 off 102 balls, and played a pivotal role in completing the whitewash against England in England for the first time.

An independent anti-doping tribunal was convened at which Tharanga pleaded guilty, claiming he had taken some herbal remedy to ease discomfort caused by a long-standing shoulder injury. The tribunal accepted that Tharanga “had no intention to enhance his sporting performance or to mask the use of another performance enhancing substance, but that he had failed to satisfy the high levels of personal responsibility implicit upon him as an international cricketer subject to anti-doping rules”. The tribunal found Tharanga guilty of breaching the ICC Anti-Doping Code and banned him from all cricket and cricket-related activities for a three-month period (9 May 2011 to 8 August 2011).

A urine sample provided by Tharanga after the world cup semi-final against New Zealand on 29 March 2011 was found to have metabolites of two glucocorticosteroids – prednisone and prednisolone, which are banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Tharanga initially claimed he had taken some medication for asthma and had no idea it was a banned drug.

Tharanga’s Sri Lankan call-up occurred on July 2005 when Sri Lanka was devastated, and after his family home was washed away by the 2004 Tsunami tragedy, where only the foundation of the house was left. His equipment, which was also washed away, was replaced by Kumar Sangakkara. Tharanga graduated to the “A” team and in July he was selected for the full squad.

Upul Tharanga Net Worth

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

Warushavithana Upul Tharanga (born 2 February 1985), commonly known as Upul Tharanga (Sinhala: උපුල් තරංග ), is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, and a former limited over captain who plays for all formats of the game. He is a left-handed opening batsman and occasional wicket-keeper.

Having played for Nondescripts since the age of 15, he played for Sri Lanka’s under-15, under-17 and under-19 squads. He had a successful under-19 World Cup in 2004 with successful innings of 117 and 61 in successive games. He was sent by the Sri Lankan cricketing board to play league cricket for Loughton Cricket Club in Essex.

Tharanga lost his form in the 2007 World Cup scoring only one half century (against New Zealand) he then continued his poor run of form in the home series against England in 2007 where he failed to contribute and often fell before the 10th over often resulting in a middle-order collapse. Subsequently, he lost his ODI place to Malinda Warnapura and his test place to Michael Vandort but he remains within the squad.

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In his third Test match he scored his first Test Century in Shaheed Chandu Stadium, Bogra. Tharanga made his ODI debut against West Indies in 2005. He scored his first ODI century back in 2005 against Bangladesh scoring 105 in R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. His highest ODI score came in 2013 against India where he scored 174 Not out at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica. It’s the second highest score by Sri Lankan in ODI after Sanath Jayasuriya’s 189. As of 6 May 2017 Tharanga has scored three Test centuries and 15 ODI centuries.

Facts & Trivia

Upul Ranked on the list of most popular Cricketer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sri Lanka. Upul Tharanga celebrates birthday on February 2 of every year.

Under Upul Tharanga captaincy, Sri Lanka suffered three 5-0 whitewashes in the year 2017. Apart from suffering whitewashes at the hands of South Africa, India and Pakistan in 2017, that threatened automatic qualification for the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Tharanga also got into trouble twice due to slow over rates and was suspended.

Top Facts about Upul Tharanga

1. Upul Tharanga is a left-handed Sri Lankan cricketer.
2. He was born on February 2, 1985 in Balapitiya, Sri Lanka.
3. Tharanga made his international debut in August 2005.
4. He has played over 200 ODIs and scored more than 6,000 runs.
5. Tharanga has also played in over 30 Test matches for Sri Lanka.
6. His highest ODI score is an unbeaten 174 against India in 2017.
7. Tharanga has captained the Sri Lankan cricket team multiple times.
8. He was part of the team that won the ICC World Twenty20 in 2014.
9. In domestic cricket, he plays for the Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club.
10. Tharanga announced his retirement from international cricket in February 2021.