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Dilruwan Perera stats

Data through 22 January 2021Last updated 22 January 2021

Coverage: matches in the Cricsheet data from 13 October 2007 to 22 January 2021. Older matches, and matches against Afghanistan, are not included, so totals can be lower than official career figures.

Between 2007 and 2021, Dilruwan Perera appears in 43 Tests, 13 ODIs, 3 T20Is for Sri Lanka in the Cricsheet data. With the ball, the best return was 161 wickets in Tests at an average of 35.90 and an economy rate of 3.21.

International matches

Tests 43 · ODIs 13 · T20Is 3

International runs

1,456

0 hundreds

International wickets

177

8 five-wicket hauls

T20 league & domestic matches

24 runs

Best bowling

6/32

Test

Teams played for

Sri Lanka 2007–2021 · 59Kandy Tuskers 2020 · 7

BattingBowling

Dilruwan Perera batting record by format

Batting by format
Format	M	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	50	0	4s	6s
Test	43	77	8	1,303	95	18.88	2,779	46.9	7	14	158	23
ODI	13	12	0	152	30	12.67	199	76.4	0	0	13	3
T20I	3	2	0	1	1	0.50	6	16.7	0	1	0	0
T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	4	1	24	12	8.00	33	72.7	0	0	2	1

Runs per year

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Dilruwan Perera: runs per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Runs
2007	30
2008	14
2011	1
2014	128
2015	27
2016	231
2017	538
2018	287
2019	105
2020	24
2021	95

Year-by-year batting (14 rows)

Batting by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	50
2007	ODI	1	30	30.00	73.2	30	0
2008	ODI	3	14	4.67	38.9	8	0
2011	T20I	2	1	0.50	16.7	1	0
2014	Test	10	128	12.80	35.8	95	1
2015	Test	4	27	6.75	44.3	15	0
2016	ODI	5	55	11.00	93.2	18	0
2016	Test	10	176	19.56	69.0	64	1
2017	ODI	2	24	12.00	126.3	15	0
2017	Test	21	514	28.56	51.3	92	4
2018	ODI	1	29	29.00	65.9	29	0
2018	Test	19	258	16.12	42.7	32	0
2019	Test	9	105	13.12	38.0	48	0
2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	24	8.00	72.7	12	0
2021	Test	4	95	23.75	42.6	67	1

Dilruwan Perera bowling record by format

Bowling by format
Format	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w	Mdns
Test	78	10,805	5,780	161	6/32	10/78	35.90	3.21	67.1	16	8	239
ODI	10	456	409	13	3/48	–	31.46	5.38	35.1	0	0	2
T20I	3	60	72	3	3/26	–	24.00	7.20	20.0	0	0	0
T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	120	148	3	1/23	–	49.33	7.40	40.0	0	0	0

Wickets per year

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Dilruwan Perera: wickets per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Wickets
2007	0
2008	1
2011	3
2014	37
2015	8
2016	32
2017	36
2018	50
2019	5
2020	3
2021	5

Year-by-year bowling (14 rows)

Bowling by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
2008	ODI	2	1	28.00	4.00	1/17
2011	T20I	3	3	24.00	7.20	3/26
2014	ODI	1	1	53.00	5.89	1/53
2014	Test	13	36	30.08	2.98	5/69
2015	Test	4	8	27.25	3.33	4/122
2016	ODI	5	9	28.44	5.45	3/48
2016	Test	10	23	24.57	2.97	6/70
2017	ODI	1	2	23.50	4.70	2/47
2017	Test	19	34	47.53	3.59	5/98
2018	ODI	1	0	–	8.33	0/25
2018	Test	21	50	29.32	3.12	6/32
2019	Test	7	5	112.80	3.35	3/114
2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	3	49.33	7.40	1/23
2021	Test	4	5	53.60	2.88	4/109

Dilruwan Perera against each team

vs Australia vs Pakistan vs India vs Bangladesh vs England vs South Africa vs Zimbabwe vs New Zealand

Batting against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	50
Pakistan	Test	14	289	22.23	43.8	95	2
Bangladesh	Test	8	214	26.75	49.8	51	2
India	Test	11	212	23.56	57.3	92	1
England	Test	10	168	16.80	42.4	67	1
Australia	Test	10	139	13.90	54.1	64	1
Zimbabwe	Test	6	122	30.50	60.7	34	0
West Indies	Test	6	69	23.00	33.7	23	0
New Zealand	Test	5	51	10.20	30.0	22	0
South Africa	Test	7	39	5.57	43.3	17	0
Australia	ODI	7	61	8.71	74.4	18	0
Bangladesh	ODI	3	53	17.67	84.1	29	0

Bowling against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
South Africa	Test	8	32	18.06	2.43	6/32
England	Test	10	27	29.44	3.03	5/75
Pakistan	Test	14	26	40.31	3.49	5/98
Bangladesh	Test	12	23	37.22	3.27	5/109
Australia	Test	9	17	36.47	2.95	6/70
Zimbabwe	Test	6	12	31.17	3.30	3/34
India	Test	9	10	84.90	4.24	3/202
New Zealand	Test	4	7	61.71	3.51	3/114
West Indies	Test	6	7	32.57	2.48	3/28
Australia	ODI	6	9	29.67	5.34	3/48

Top grounds (batting)

Most runs by ground
Ground	Inns	Runs	Avg	HS
Galle International Stadium	19	446	26.24	92
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	12	109	9.08	25
R Premadasa Stadium	5	107	26.75	33
Sharjah Cricket Stadium	2	103	51.50	95
Dubai International Cricket Stadium	3	87	29.00	58
P Sara Oval	6	84	14.00	50
Harare Sports Club	4	60	20.00	34
National Stadium, Karachi	2	53	26.50	48
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	3	44	14.67	18
Arun Jaitley Stadium	1	42	42.00	42

Top grounds (bowling)

Most wickets by ground
Ground	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ
Galle International Stadium	20	57	26.82	3.22
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	12	31	31.06	2.85
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	8	14	26.36	3.79
P Sara Oval	5	10	33.80	2.74
Harare Sports Club	4	8	24.12	3.24
Dubai International Cricket Stadium	3	8	24.38	3.55
Shere Bangla National Stadium	4	8	27.25	4.15
R Premadasa Stadium	5	8	40.62	3.92
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	4	7	51.43	3.00
Zayed Cricket Stadium	3	4	39.50	2.72

Batting and bowling by phase (limited overs)

T20 phases: overs 1–6, 7–15, 16–20. ODI phases: overs 1–10, 11–40, 41–50.
Format	Phase	Runs	Balls	SR	Outs	Bowl balls	Wkts	Econ
T20	Powerplay	–	–	–	–	60	1	7.90
T20	Middle	21	26	80.8	2	102	4	5.76
T20	Death	4	13	30.8	3	18	1	14.33
ODI	Powerplay	30	67	44.8	3	66	2	8.27
ODI	Middle	48	61	78.7	3	354	9	4.88
ODI	Death	74	71	104.2	6	36	2	5.00

How Dilruwan Perera was dismissed

Caught43 (50%)
Lbw25 (29%)
Bowled10 (12%)
Stumped4 (5%)
Run out4 (5%)

How Dilruwan Perera took wickets

Caught89
Lbw51
Bowled31
Stumped6
Caught and bowled3

Last 20 innings

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Dilruwan Perera: runs in the last 20 innings
Innings	Runs
15 Dec 2018	16
26 Dec 2018	0
26 Dec 2018	22
24 Jan 2019	1
24 Jan 2019	8
1 Feb 2019	10
1 Feb 2019	4
22 Aug 2019	13
22 Aug 2019	0
11 Dec 2019	16
19 Dec 2019	48
19 Dec 2019	5
1 Dec 2020	9
3 Dec 2020	0
5 Dec 2020	12
10 Dec 2020	3
14 Jan 2021	0
14 Jan 2021	24
22 Jan 2021	67
22 Jan 2021	4

Most recent batting innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Score	Balls	How out	Ground
22 Jan 2021	Test	England	4	13	caught	Galle International Stadium
22 Jan 2021	Test	England	67	170	caught	Galle International Stadium
14 Jan 2021	Test	England	24	38	stumped	Galle International Stadium
14 Jan 2021	Test	England	0	2	bowled	Galle International Stadium
10 Dec 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Galle Gladiators	3	7	caught	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
5 Dec 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Colombo Kings	12	18	lbw	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
3 Dec 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Dambulla Viiking	0*	0	not out	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
1 Dec 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Jaffna Stallions	9	8	caught	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
19 Dec 2019	Test	Pakistan	5	8	caught	National Stadium, Karachi
19 Dec 2019	Test	Pakistan	48	84	lbw	National Stadium, Karachi
11 Dec 2019	Test	Pakistan	16*	34	not out	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
22 Aug 2019	Test	New Zealand	0	12	caught	P Sara Oval
22 Aug 2019	Test	New Zealand	13	54	lbw	P Sara Oval
1 Feb 2019	Test	Australia	4	9	caught	Manuka Oval
1 Feb 2019	Test	Australia	10	25	caught	Manuka Oval
24 Jan 2019	Test	Australia	8	34	caught	The Gabba
24 Jan 2019	Test	Australia	1	16	caught	The Gabba
26 Dec 2018	Test	New Zealand	22	62	caught	Hagley Oval
26 Dec 2018	Test	New Zealand	0	4	lbw	Hagley Oval
15 Dec 2018	Test	New Zealand	16	38	caught	Basin Reserve

Last 20 bowling innings

Most recent bowling innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Figures	Overs	Mdns	Ground
22 Jan 2021	Test	England	0/39	13.3	1	Galle International Stadium
22 Jan 2021	Test	England	1/86	32.1	4	Galle International Stadium
14 Jan 2021	Test	England	0/34	11.2	2	Galle International Stadium
14 Jan 2021	Test	England	4/109	36.1	2	Galle International Stadium
10 Dec 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Galle Gladiators	1/30	4	0	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
9 Dec 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Jaffna Stallions	0/21	3	0	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
3 Dec 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Dambulla Viiking	1/23	3	0	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
1 Dec 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Jaffna Stallions	0/30	3	0	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
30 Nov 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Galle Gladiators	1/26	4	0	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
28 Nov 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Dambulla Viiking	0/18	3	0	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
19 Dec 2019	Test	Pakistan	0/94	21	1	National Stadium, Karachi
19 Dec 2019	Test	Pakistan	0/23	7	0	National Stadium, Karachi
11 Dec 2019	Test	Pakistan	0/85	24	0	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
22 Aug 2019	Test	New Zealand	3/114	37	4	P Sara Oval
1 Feb 2019	Test	Australia	0/52	15	3	Manuka Oval
1 Feb 2019	Test	Australia	0/112	32	4	Manuka Oval
24 Jan 2019	Test	Australia	2/84	32.2	9	The Gabba
26 Dec 2018	Test	New Zealand	1/149	41	3	Hagley Oval
26 Dec 2018	Test	New Zealand	1/13	5	1	Hagley Oval
15 Dec 2018	Test	New Zealand	2/156	40	1	Basin Reserve

Batter vs bowler matchups

Batters Dilruwan Perera bowled to most

Frequently asked questions

How many wickets has Dilruwan Perera taken in Tests?

161 wickets in 78 innings at an average of 35.90, economy 3.21, best figures 6/32.

How many wickets has Dilruwan Perera taken in ODIs?

13 wickets in 10 innings at an average of 31.46, economy 5.38, best figures 3/48.

How many runs has Dilruwan Perera scored in Tests?

1,303 runs in 77 innings (43 matches) at an average of 18.88 and a strike rate of 46.9, in the data from 2014 to 2021.

How many runs has Dilruwan Perera scored in ODIs?

152 runs in 12 innings (13 matches) at an average of 12.67 and a strike rate of 76.4, in the data from 2007 to 2018.

How many runs has Dilruwan Perera scored in T20Is?

1 runs in 2 innings (3 matches) at an average of 0.50 and a strike rate of 16.7, in the data from 2011 to 2011.

Source: computed by CricketWise from Cricsheet ball-by-ball data (ODC-BY). Career totals cover only matches in the Cricsheet data. Definitions: methodology.