Fairlie George Dalpathado (17 August 1924 – 6 January 2010) was a

cricketer 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 ...

who played three matches of

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

for

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

in 1949 and 1950. A middle-order batsman and medium-pace bowler, Fairlie Dalphatado was a champion schoolboy cricketer at St Joseph's College, Colombo. He captained the school's team in 1943, when they went through the season unbeaten and finished by dismissing the Combined Schools XI for 35, Dalphatado taking 6 for 17. After leaving school he had a long career in domestic cricket with

Sinhalese Sports Club The Singhalese Sports Club (SSC) is a first-class cricket club in Sri Lanka. Singhalese is the most successful club in Sri Lankan domestic cricket, having won the Premier Trophy a record 32 times to 2017. Although the name is correctly spelt wi ...

, and coached the cricket team at St Joseph's College for more than 20 years. He represented Ceylon in the unofficial

Test Test(s), testing, or TEST may refer to: * Test (assessment), an educational assessment intended to measure the respondents' knowledge or other abilities Arts and entertainment * ''Test'' (2013 film), an American film * ''Test'' (2014 film), ...

against the touring West Indians in 1948-49 and toured Pakistan with Ceylon in 1949-50, when he played in both unofficial Tests. He also represented Ceylon at

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

, competing in the first Asian Tennis Championship. Dalphatado worked as a manager in the tea industry. He married an

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

n lady, Therese Abraham, whom he had met while on one of his tennis tours in India. They had a son and two daughters.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dalphatado, Fairlie 1924 births 2010 deaths Alumni of Saint Joseph's College, Colombo Sri Lankan cricketers Sinhalese Sports Club cricketers All-Ceylon cricketers Sri Lankan male tennis players Sri Lankan cricket coaches People from British Ceylon People from Chilaw