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Full name Shantha Kalavitigoda
Born December 23, 1977, Colombo
Current age 30 years 295 days
Major teams Sri Lanka,Basnahira North,Colts Cricket Club,North Central Province,Sinhalese Sports Club,Sri Lanka A
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
1
2
0
8
7
4.00
54
14.81
0
0
1
0
2
0
First-class
132
218
14
6297
169
30.86
12
28
112
0
List A
82
79
9
1910
121
27.28
1
11
20
0
Twenty20
5
5
1
145
50*
36.25
110
131.81
0
1
18
4
3
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
132
84
39
0
-
-
-
2.78
-
0
0
0
List A
82
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Twenty20
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
Only Test
New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Wellington, Apr 11-14, 2005 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut
1997/98
Last First-class
Badureliya Sports Club v Colts Cricket Club at Colombo (Colts), Mar 27-30, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1997/98
Last List A
Basnahira North v Wayamba at Colombo (RPS), Jan 2, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Colts Cricket Club v Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club at Colombo (Moors), Aug 17, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Colts Cricket Club v Badureliya Sports Club at Colombo (Bloomfield), Oct 22, 2005 scorecard
Profile
Shantha Kalavitigoda was a surprise call-up for Sri Lanka's postponed tour
to New Zealand in 2004-05. But Kalavitigoda, a right-handed opener, has been quietly knocking on the door in recent years. While younger batsmen have been given repeated opportunities to flatter and fail, Kalavitigoda has been
consistently accumulating first-class runs, scoring eight hundreds in the two seasons. In 2003-04 he was adjudged the best batsman in the Premier League, and in 2004-05 he scored nearly 800 runs for Colombo Colts and North West Province. That was enough to win him selection to the A team against England A in March 2005. He grabbed his opportunity with a fighting 83 off 177 balls at NCC in the second Test, an innings that persuaded the selectors to give him a chance in the senior team. When that opportunity did arrive in the second Test in Wellington he was shunted down to an unfamiliar No. 7 position and failed in both innings.
Kalavitigoda's first taste of international cricket was with the Sri Lankan under-17 team at the 1994 World Cup in Malaysia. He was a prolific scorer for his school, Nalanda College, and once shared a 380-run partnership with Mahela Jayawardene in an under-23 match for SSC, his first club.
