Sidath Wettimuny

Sidath Wettimuny
Personal information
Full name
Sidath Wettimuny
Born (1956-08-12) 12 August 1956
Colombo, Sri Lanka
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleOpening Batsman
RelationsSunil Wettimuny (brother)
Mithra Wettimuny (brother)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 11)17 February 1982 v England
Last Test4 January 1987 v India
ODI debut (cap 22)13 February 1982 v England
Last ODI17 January 1987 v India
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 23 35 55 46
Runs scored 1,221 786 2,859 1,139
Batting average 29.07 24.56 33.63 27.11
100s/50s 2/6 0/4 6/15 1/5
Top score 190 86* 227* 105
Balls bowled 24 57 134 72
Wickets 0 1 2 1
Bowling average 70.00 37.50 73.00
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 1/13 1/7 1/13
Catches/stumpings 10/0 3/0 21/0 4/0
Source: Cricinfo, 24 January 2019

Sidath Wettimuny is a Sri Lankan former cricketer, who played Test cricket and One Day Internationals as an opening batsman from 1982 to 1987. Wettimuny was a typical 1980s opening batsman in that he often played very defensively, grafting for his runs, and his ODI strike rate of 48 shows this quite clearly. In 1985, he was named as one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year.