Navin Madushan Kavikara (born 27 December 1989) 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 ...

er who has played for several teams in Sri Lankan domestic cricket. He is a

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bowler. Having played for the

Sri Lanka Schools XI Sri Lanka Schools XI cricket team was a Sri Lankan cricket team that represents Sri Lankan schools. The team featured in the first-class BCCSL Invitation Quadrangular Tournament in 2001/02 and 2002/03, and the Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament ...

in the 2007–08 Inter-Provincial Twenty20, Kavikara represented the Sri Lanka under-19s at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. He took eight wickets from five games, behind only

Sachith Pathirana Sachith Shanaka Pathirana (born 21 March 1989), is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who played for the national team and domestically in first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches. Pathirana was a bowling all-rounder who bowled slow left-arm orth ...

for Sri Lanka, with his best figures being 3/20 against

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. In January 2010, Kavikara represented the Sri Lankan under-21s in the cricket tournament at the

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, winning a silver medal. He made his

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debut in December 2011, for the

Lankan Cricket Club Lankan Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team in Sri Lanka. History Lankan Cricket Club played in the Premier Trophy from 2005–06 to 2012–13. It was one of six clubs that lost their places when the competition was reduced from 20 teams t ...

, but for the following season switched to Chilaw Marians. Kavikara switched clubs again for the 2013–14 season, transferring to

Badureliya Sports Club Badureliya Sports Club is a first-class cricket team in Sri Lanka. It plays its home matches at Surrey Village Cricket Ground, Maggona. In late 2008, the club threatened to boycott the Sri Lankan domestic tournaments due to their objections to b ...

, for whom he made his first-class debut in January 2014.First-class matches played by Navin Kavikara
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kavikara, Nishan 1989 births Living people Badureliya Sports Club cricketers Chilaw Marians Cricket Club cricketers Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club cricketers Lankan Cricket Club cricketers Cricketers from Colombo Sri Lankan cricketers Sri Lanka Schools XI cricketers South Asian Games silver medalists for Sri Lanka South Asian Games medalists in cricket