Player Profile

Roger Wijesuriya

Sri Lanka

Personal Information
BornFebruary 18, 1960 (64 years)
Birth PlaceMoratuwa
Height-
RoleBatsman
Batting StyleRight Handed Bat
Bowling StyleLeft-arm orthodox
ICC Rankings
Batting
Bowling
All-Rounder
FormatCurrent RankBest Rank
Test----
ODI----
T20I----

Batting Career Summary

FormatMInnNORunsHSAvgBFSR100200504s6s
Test4722284.422100.0-----
ODI832181218.04837.5-----
T20-------------
IPL-----0.0-0.0-----

Bowling Career Summary

FormatMInnBRunsWicketsBBIBBMEconAvgSR5w10w
Test4558629411/681/773.01294.0586.0--
ODI8831228782/252/255.5235.8839.0--
T20------/--/------
IPL------/--/------

Profile Summary

Roger Wijesuriya easily makes it to the list of most ineffective bowlers to have ever played Test cricket. A left-arm finger spinner by design, he didn’t have a great deal of fizz in his bowling and almost always depended on frustrating the batsmen for a wicket rather than plotting their downfall with craft. Still, he was a force during his U19 days and had reasonable numbers in domestic cricket across both formats. However, like a few other domestic stars in the spin department, he struggled badly at the highest level. Just a solitary Test wicket from almost 98 overs across four Tests is a shambolic stat for any bowler, especially for a spinner who played all his matches in the sub-continent. Opposition batsmen were willing to outdo him in terms of patience and it was a battle that Roger could never win. Even his ODI career was extremely brief and was quite expensive in the games that he played in.

Written by Hariprasad Sadanandan