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LASITH MALINGA...

Cricketer of the month

He is a awesome cricketer and great bowler produced by srilanka to world cricket.

Full Name -: Separamadu Lasith Malinga
Born -: Rathgama,Galle(Srilanka)
Date of Birth -: Aug 28, 1983
Nike Name -: Slinga malinga,male

Childhood

He is born Rathgama in Galle and he loved to play cricket in his childhood.In his early days he

played soft ball cricket in the beach with his friends.He went for study to Devapathiraja College

(Rathgama),Vidyaloka college (Gall)and finally Mahinda college. (Galle).When he played cricket

with friends he bowled fast using tennis ball.His mother worked at a bank and father worked as a

mechanic .He watched international cricket on television and he understand its very different and

so far from his village.He played lot of six a side match in his early days.After school he played

cricket in every day but his mother did not like to that.

He played soft ball cricket for Vidayaloka college and he was invited to Mahinda and become a

popular cricketer in mahinda.

He selected to under srilankan 19 team for pakistan tour and he did well in first match but did n

ot select national team but fortune of his former cricketer Champika Ramanayke took him in galle

cricket club.Then he played first class cricket.

Career Statistics

Test Debut: Australia v Sri Lanka at Darwin, 01-03, Jul 2004

ODI Debut: Sri Lanka v United Arab Emirates at Dambulla, Jul 17, 2004

Twenty20 Debut: England v Sri Lanka at Southampton, Jun 15, 2006

	M	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St

Test	30	37	13	275	64	11.46	619	44.43	-	1	36	6	7	-

ODI	98	46	15	282	56	9.10	365	77.26	-	1	22	11	13	-

T20I	30	12	7	63	27	12.60	63	100.00	-	-	3	3	13	-

Bowling records

Inns

Balls

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Ave

Eco

10W

Test

5209

3349

101

5/50

9/210

33.16

3.86

51.57

ODI

4620

3798

154

6/38

24.66

4.93

30.00

T20I

612

743

3/12

20.08

7.28

16.54

He made his Test debut on the July 1–3, 2004, at Darwin's Marrara Oval. He was immediately successful, taking 6 wickets in the match (Darren Lehmann twice, Adam Gilchrist, Damien Martyn, Shane Warne andMichael Kasprowicz. He was impressed by the friendliness of the Australian team in general, and in particular Adam Gilchrist who sought him out after the game to present him with one of the match stumps in the Sri Lankan dressing room

He has developed into Sri Lanka's fastest Test bowler and a regular member of both their Test and One Day International sides. He has earned a reputation for troubling batsmen with his lively pace and well-directed bouncer. He regularly bowls at speeds between 140 and 150 km/h (87 to 93 mph) and sometimes slightly faster. As time went by he started to lose pace clocking around 130 to 140 km/h. His slower off cutter was also menacing. He burst onto the test scene after ripping through the New Zealand top order, helping Sri Lanka draw the test series on their 2006/07 tour of New Zealand. He announced his retirement from Test cricket on 22 April 2011 in order to prolong his career in One-Day and T20 cricket

One Day Internationals (ODI)

Malinga debuted on July 17, 2004 when Sri Lanka played the United Arab Emirates at Dambulla. Since then he has become a regular member on the ODI squad.

During the Sri Lankan team's tour of New Zealand in 2004–2005, the New Zealand team found his action hard to play and the NZ captain, Stephen Fleming asked the umpire to change his belt and tie to a lighter colour so that they would be better able to see the ball being released from Malinga's hand. The umpire did not do so.

Malinga became a highlight during the 2007 Cricket World Cup, when on March 28, 2007, against South Africa he became the first ever player to take four wickets in four consecutive balls in international cricket. This was also only the fifth hat-trick in World Cup history, the third ODI hat-trick for Sri Lanka and the 24th in all ODI history. Malinga's victims were Shaun Pollock (bowled at 13), Andrew Hall (caught by Upul Tharanga at 0), Jacques Kallis (caught by Kumar Sangakkara at 86), and Makhaya Ntini (bowled at 0). Despite Malinga's lethal spell, however, South Africa proceeded to win the match by 1 wicket with 10 balls still left.

During the 2011 Cricket World Cup, Malinga took his second career hat-trick in Sri Lanka's group stage match against Kenya. This made him the first bowler to take two World Cup hat-tricks, and the fourth to take two hat-tricks in all One Day International cricket (alongside Wasim Akram, Saqlain Mushtaq and Chaminda Vaas). In August 2011, he managed yet an other hat-trick against Australia.

T20 International (T20)

Malinga plays for Indian Premier League (IPL) team Mumbai Indians. He is their strike bowler in this format and is leading bowler. World record holder Sachin Tendulkar the Mumbai Indian's captain described Malinga as an important cog in Mumbai Indians game plan after the retirement of strike bowler in former South African Captain Shaun Pollock who represented the team in the first season. In the first match for the Mumbai Indians in the fourth season, he got 5 wickets against Delhi Daredevils restricting them to a mere 95. He had his best score of 5/13 in the game.

He won the Purple Cap award (most wickets) in the fourth season of Indian Premier League with 28 scalps in 16 matches.^[8] Throughout the tournament, he led the Mumbai Indians attack from the front and was instrumental in many victories.

In the 2011 Champions League Twenty20, he was second highest wicket taker in the tournament and won the golden wicket for this performance and won the award

Records

§ Only bowler in cricketing history to take four wickets in four consecutive balls in international cricket (vs. South Africa March 2007)

§ Only bowler in cricketing history to take three hat-tricks in international cricket.

§ Lasith Malinga and Angelo Mathews hold the highest run partnership for the 9th wicket in an ODI: 132 runs, against Australia in Melbourne in 2010. Malinga scored 56 Runs from 48 balls including six fours and two sixes; Mathews scored 77 runs off 84 deliveries including eight fours and one six.

§ He is the only bowler with two World Cup hat tricks, against South Africa in the 2007 Cricket World Cup and the other against Kenya in the 2011 Cricket World Cup.§ Malinga also holds the record for most wickets taken in a single IPL season, 28 in the 2011 Indian Premier League 4