
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
| Format | Current Rank | Best Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Test | -- | -- |
| ODI | -- | -- |
| T20I | -- | -- |
Batting Career Summary
| Format | M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 4 | 7 | 2 | 22 | 8 | 4.4 | 22 | 100.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| ODI | 8 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 18.0 | 48 | 37.5 | - | - | - | - | - |
| T20 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| IPL | - | - | - | - | - | 0.0 | - | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
Bowling Career Summary
| Format | M | Inn | B | Runs | Wickets | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5w | 10w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 4 | 5 | 586 | 294 | 1 | 1/68 | 1/77 | 3.01 | 294.0 | 586.0 | - | - |
| ODI | 8 | 8 | 312 | 287 | 8 | 2/25 | 2/25 | 5.52 | 35.88 | 39.0 | - | - |
| 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
Written by Hariprasad Sadanandan