Lakshitha Manasinghe (born 21 November 1999) is a Sri Lankan
cricket
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er.
He made his
List A
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debut on 14 December 2019, for
Negombo Cricket Club
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in the
2019–20 Invitation Limited Over Tournament
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.
He made his
Twenty20
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debut on 4 January 2020, for Negombo Cricket Club in the
2019–20 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.
In March 2021, he was part of the
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 ...
team that won the
2020–21 SLC Twenty20 Tournament
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, the first time they had won the tournament since 2005.
In June 2022, he was named in the
Sri Lanka A squad for their matches against
Australia A during Australia's
tour of Sri Lanka. The following month, he was added to Sri Lanka's
Test
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squad for the second match against Australia, and for the second Test
against Pakistan. Also in July 2022, he was signed by the
Colombo Stars
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for the
third edition of the
Lanka Premier League
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.
Lakshitha who was educated at
Nalanda College, Colombo
''Āpadāna Sobhinī Panñā''
, motto_translation = Character Illumines Wisdom
, established =
, founder = Patrick de Silva Kularatne
, type = National
, grades = ...
captained the college first XI cricket team in 2019.
Nalanda aiming to break six-decade plus jinx
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References
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1999 births
Living people
Sri Lankan cricketers
Negombo Cricket Club cricketers
Sinhalese Sports Club cricketers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Nalanda College, Colombo
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