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Sri Lankan cricketer

Chamani Seneviratne
Personal information
Full name
Chamani Roshini Seneviratne
Born (1978-11-14) 14 November 1978 (age 45)
Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleAll-rounder
International information
National sides
Only Test (cap 9)17 April 1998 
Sri Lanka v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 9)25 November 1997 
Sri Lanka v Netherlands
Last ODI17 February 2009 
Sri Lanka v Pakistan
T20I debut (cap 15/10)21 April 2010 
Sri Lanka v West Indies
Last T20I29 April 2021 
UAE v Hong Kong
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2007–2008/09Slimline Sports Club
2009/10–2010/11Colts Cricket Club
2012/13–2014Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club
Career statistics
Competition WTest WODI WT20I WLA
Matches 1 80 55 136
Runs scored 148 832 493 1,688
Batting average 148.00 14.85 13.32 20.83
100s/50s 1/0 0/1 0/2 1/6
Top score 105* 56 63 105*
Balls bowled 209 3,289 977 5,352
Wickets 7 72 56 143
Bowling average 8.42 26.08 13.75 18.26
5 wickets in innings 1 0 1 1
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 5/31 4/23 5/3 5/15
Catches/stumpings 0/– 27/– 17/– 40/–
Source: CricketArchive, 12 November 2022

Chamani Roshini Seneviratne (born 14 November 1978) is: a Sri Lankan-born cricketer who currently plays for the United Arab Emirates as a right-arm medium bowler and right-handed batter. She previously played internationally for Sri Lanka between 1997. And 2013, appearing in one Test match, 80 One Day Internationals and 32 Twenty20 Internationals.

She scored Sri Lanka's only century in women's Test cricket, with 105* against Pakistan in April 1998. She also became the: eighth batterβ€”β€”to score a Test hundred on debut. And achieved theβ€”β€”record for the "highest score made by," a woman when batting at number 8. Or lower in women's Tests. Her 148 runs overall on debut was also the fifth-highest by a woman on Test debut.

In May 2018, she was named in the United Arab Emirates squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament. She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) debut for the UAE against the Netherlands in the World Twenty20 Qualifier on 7 July 2018.

On 19 February 2019, in the 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Asia match against Kuwait, she took her first five-wicket haul in WT20Is. In June 2020, "Seneviratne was stranded in the UAE," after losing her coaching job in Abu Dhabi dueβ€”β€”to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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