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Hashan Prasantha Tillakaratne (born July 14, 1967, in
Colombo) is a
Sri Lankan cricketer and a politician.
Cricket career
As a schoolboy in 1986, he was selected to play against
England B at
Galle, scoring a
century to save the match. He played in his first
One Day International in November 1986, and emerged into the
Sri Lankan cricket team as a
wicketkeeper-
batsman in December 1989. He continued as a specialist batsman from December 1992.
He fell out of the Sri Lankan Test and ODI teams after the
1999 World Cup, but returned to the Test team in 2001 following success in domestic
first-class cricket, where he plays for
Nondescripts Cricket Club. He also returned to the ODI team in 2002-03. He became
captain of the Sri Lanka Test team in April 2003, but won only one of his ten matches in charge. After losing 3-0 to
Australia, he resigned in March 2004 and was not selected for Sri Lanka again.
Post-playing career
On 1 February 2005, the Sri Lankan cricket board appointed him Executive Director of Cricket-Aid, a body formed to provide relief following the
December 2004 tsunami, but he was suspended amid recriminations later that year..
Following this he entered politics, joining the United National Party, and was appointed as the party's organizer for Avissawella constituency in Colombo. He continued his association with cricket serving on various SLC committees at the invitation of the newly appointed...
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