Suranga Sampath is a Sri Lankan blind

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. He was part of the Sri Lankan team during the 2017 ICC World T20 for the Blind. In the

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, he was the top scorer throughout the tournament with an aggregate of 733 runs with an average of excess 150. He also scored 5 centuries during the tournament, the most by any player in a single Blind T20 World Cup series; thus becoming the only

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to score 5 centuries in a single edition of a Blind T20 World Cup. He picked up 4 wickets during the tournament to be adjudged the man of the tournament. Suranga Sampath along with Ruwan Wasantha set the record for the highest ever partnership for any wicket in Blind T20I history as well as in Blind T20 World Cup history when they put on an unbeaten 334 runs for the first wicket in the 2017 Blind T20 World Cup. He was also named as a player in the dream team during the 2017 Blind T20 World Cup. Suranga Sampath was also named as the member of the Sri Lankan blind cricket team for the

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. During the first match for Sri Lanka in the tournament against Australia he scored 130 which propelled the team score to 485/7 in 40 overs and played a key role in a massive victory by a margin of 303 runs.

Blind International Centuries

Blind T20I Centuries

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