Dilan Raj (born 12 December 1972) is a Sri Lankan

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

coach and former player. He was a right-handed

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and a right-arm

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bowler. Born in

Colombo Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...

, Raj represented the Zimbabwean region of

Matabeleland Matabeleland is a region located in southwestern Zimbabwe that is divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo, and Matabeleland South. These provinces are in the west and south-west of Zimbabwe, between the Limpopo and Zambezi r ...

in two first-class matches during the

1997–98 Logan Cup The 1997–98 Logan Cup was a first-class cricket competition held in Zimbabwe from 28 August – 25 October 1997. It was won by the Mashonaland Cricket Team The Mashonaland cricket team was a first-class cricket team representing the Mashonala ...

. In 2000, he moved to New Zealand, where he established himself as a cricket coach. He worked for Cricket

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leaving it in tatters before becoming director of cricket of

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-based Manawatū Cricket Association in 2019.

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* * 1972 births Living people Matabeleland cricketers Cricketers from Colombo Sri Lankan cricketers Sri Lankan cricket coaches Sri Lankan expatriate sportspeople in Zimbabwe Sri Lankan expatriate sportspeople in New Zealand {{SriLanka-cricket-bio-1970s-stub