Sathyendra "Sathi" Coomaraswamy (1919 – 15 January 1988) was a
Sri Lanka
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 ...
n first-class
cricket
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er in the 1940s and 1950s, before Sri Lanka had Test status.
Coomaraswamy was born to
Chellappah Coomaraswamy, a civil servant and later Senator and his wife Mankayatkarasi. He was educated at
Royal College, Colombo
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, where he played in the
Royal-Thomian encounter. A middle-order batsman and leg-spinner, he played for the
Tamil Union Club and made his début for Ceylon in the one-day match against the 1948 Australians, dismissing
Neil Harvey
Robert Neil Harvey (born 8 October 1928) is an Australian former cricketer who was a member of the Australian cricket team between 1948 and 1963, playing in 79 Test matches. He was the vice-captain of the team from 1957 until his retirement. ...
and
Ron Hamence
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with consecutive balls and finishing with four wickets.
Playing against
John Goddard's West Indians in 1948-49, he scored 6 and 35 in Ceylon's first match and 57 and 41 not out in the second, but his single wicket in the West Indians' two innings cost 164 runs.
['' Wisden'' 1989, p. 1157.] In 1949-50 he toured
Pakistan with the Ceylon team, captaining the team in one match. In 1950 and 1951 he led Ceylon in two matches against the
Commonwealth XI. In 1950 he led Tamil Union to the club championship.
Coomaraswamy won Ceylon's championship at the 100 yard sprint.
He was an honorary member of
MCC.
The Satyendra Coomaraswamy Memorial Prize is awarded at Royal College in his memory for a cricket, tennis and athletic
coloursman qualifying to be a university science entrant.
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1920 births
1988 deaths
All-Ceylon cricketers
Alumni of Royal College, Colombo
People from British Ceylon
Sri Lankan cricketers
Sri Lankan Tamil sportspeople
Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club cricketers
Sri Lankan male sprinters