Sunil Wettimuny
Sri Lankan cricketer
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Full name | Sunil Ramsay de Silva Wettimuny | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1949-02-02) 2 February 1949 (age 75) Colombo, Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-are medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket keeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Sidath Wettimuny (brother) Mithra Wettimuny (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ODI debut (cap 12) | 11 January 1975 v Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 16 June 1979 v India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 3 September 2015 |
Sunil Ramsay de Silva Wettimuny (born 2 February 1949), or Sunil Wettimuny, is a Sri Lankan former cricketer who played three One Day International (ODI) matches in the Cricket World Cup tournaments of 1975 and 1979 as an opening batsman.[1]
Sunil is the elder brother of two other Sri Lankan cricketers, Mithra and Sidath. After his cricketing career ended, he became a commercial pilot. He was the pilot of the special flight which brought the 1996 World Cup winning team from Lahore, in Pakistan, to Sri Lanka.[2]
References
- ^ "Sunil Wettimuny". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Lanka's 'Pilot' Episode". ESPNcricinfo.com. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
External links
- Sunil Wettimuny at ESPNcricinfo
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Sri Lanka squad – 1975 Cricket World Cup
- 1 Tennekoon (c)
- 2 GRA de Silva
- 3 DS de Silva
- 4 Fernando (wk)
- 5 Heyn
- 6 Kaluperuma
- 7 Mendis
- 8 Opatha
- 9 Pieris
- 10 Ranasinghe
- 11 Tissera
- 12 Warnapura
- 13 Wettimuny
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