We are delighted to announce the signing of 23 year old Sri Lankan Dunith Jayathunga as our professional for the 2025 season.
Dunith is a right handed top order batter and right arm legspin bowler who currently plays for Badureliya back in Sri Lanka
Highly regarded in Sri Lanka Dunith was selected and played for the Sri Lanka Emerging Team on their tour to Japan for 5 T20 matches back in May 2023
Dunith was a talented school boy cricketer at St Sebastian's where he scored over a 1000 runs in two successive seasons and in 2023 he top scored with 273 not out in the SLC Major Clubs Under 23 Championship. Currently Dunith has a high score of 84 in 1st class cricket and 94 to his name in List A 50 over cricket and he averages a healthy mid 20s in both formats
This will be Dunith's first experience of league cricket in the UK but he comes highly recommended by Colne's professional Geeth Kumara
Dunith will be the clubs fourth Sri Lankan professional following in the footsteps of Ashen Bandara in 2019, Prasansana Jayamanne in 2021 and Raveen Yasas in 2024
We look forward to welcoming Dunith to The Applegarth next year and many thanks to Gary Hunt at CricIntro for all his help in getting the deal finalised
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