An Australian cricket club has signed former Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne for the next 3 years.
The Keilor Cricket Club said it was thrilled to announce that they have signed recently retired Sri Lankan captain Dimuth Karunaratne for the next 3 years.
Dimuth played 100 tests for Sri Lanka , amassing 7222 runs at 39.25 with 16 test centuries.
Throughout his 100 tests, Dimuth was selected in the ICC Test Team of the year on three occasions.
Dimuth has also recorded over 15,000 first class runs with 47 centuries.
In 50 one day internationals he has scored 1316 runs @ 31.33 with 1 century and 11 x 50s
This is an outstanding result for our cricket club and we can’t wait to get to work with him next season and build for future success.
The Keilor Cricket Club said they pride themselves as being one of the leading community based cricket clubs in Melbourne’s north west.
The club said that having Dimuth with them will provide so much value to their junior and senior development programmes. (Colombo Gazette)
