Romesh Kaluwitharana
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
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| Bowling type | - | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 49 | 189 |
| Runs scored | 1933 | 3711 |
| Batting average | 26.12 | 22.22 |
| 100s/50s | 3/9 | 2/23 |
| Top score | 132* | 102* |
| Balls bowled | - | - |
| Wickets | - | - |
| Bowling average | - | - |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a |
| Best bowling | - | - |
| Catches/stumpings | 93/26 | 132/75 |
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Romesh Shantha Kaluwitharana (born November 24, 1969, Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 49 Tests and 189 ODIs from 1990 to 2004.
His early career made him look like a good Sri Lankan prospect, and the undoubted highlight of his career was the entertaining innings of 132 not out (including 26 boundaries) that he made on Test debut against a slightly understrength Australia in 1992. However, he failed to deliver on his promise in a declining Sri Lankan team (prior to the revival of Sri Lankan cricket at the 1996 World Cup).
Once in the national side, he often uselessly threw his wicket away and was suspect to the swinging delivery. For a wicket-keeper, he surprisingly did not like pace and hated the ball coming onto his bat. His greatest contribution to ODIs came after he was promoted to the top of the batting order to partner opener Sanath Jayasuriya during the 1995-96 tour of Australia, helping to give birth to an aggressive batting approach in the first fifteen overs of fielding restrictions.
His wicket-keeping abilities were commendable, often chirping in the field and encouraging a lack-lustre side which did not perform consistently.
Romesh has spent a number of years contributing to charity work in the impoverished Northern part of Sri-Lanka along with his long time cricket companion Muttiah Muralitharan. He is nicknamed 'Kalu' and announced his retirement in 2004, after an unsuccessful end to his Test career (averaging just 19.03 over his last 25 Tests), paving the way for Kumar Sangakkara to take over wicketkeeping duties for the National team.
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