Suraj Abeysekera (full name Raphil Suraj Abeysekera; born 24 October 1958) is a former

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 ...

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. He was 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 ...

. He has played for 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 ...

and the

Sri Lanka Board President's XI Shri (; , ) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific. The word is widely used in South and Southeast Asian languages such as Marathi, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, ...

teams in the domestic game and internationally he played for the under-25s in 1981 against the Tamil Nadu under-25s and for the

Sri Lanka national cricket team The Sri Lanka men's national cricket team, ( si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික ක්‍රිකට් කණ්ඩායම, ta, இலங்கை தேசிய கிரிக்கெட் அணி) nicknamed The Lions ...

in 1986 against the England B team. He was a first-class bowler in 9 matches from the 1978–79 season to 1989–90 and took 16 wickets. He bowled off break and was a right-handed batsman. His best bowling was 4–55 and his highest score was 41 runs, not out. Abeysekera made his first-class debut in February 1979 when he played for the President's XI against the touring

West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A ...

. His last match was in the 1988–89 Lakspray Trophy final for the Sinhalese against the Nondescripts Cricket Club.First-class matches played by Suraj Abeysekera
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at ESPNcricinfo 1958 births Sri Lankan cricketers Sinhalese Sports Club cricketers Living people Cricketers from Colombo {{SriLanka-cricket-bio-1950s-stub