Samantha Indika de Saram (born September 2, 1973 in Matara

Matara, Sri Lanka

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) is a Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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n cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who usually occupies the position of wicketkeeper.

A powerful batsman, Saram kept wicket and scored a vast number of runs for his school team, becoming one of the most reliable batsmen in the country, including an innings in which he alone scored 304 runs in just 149 balls. However, playing for his Test side, he was never really given a chance to shine, and he has not played a Test match for nearly six years, opting instead for the realms of Twenty20 cricket

Short form cricket

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.

He has also played for Sultans of Sylhet

Sultans of Sylhet

Sultans of Sylhet is the franchise representing Sylhet in the Bangladesh NCL Twenty20, a Twenty20 cricket tournament. The team is led by Mashrafe Mortaza. Alok Kapali is the team's Icon Player. The official colors are yellow and blue. The team also has thre players who are iconic...

 in Bangladesh's NCL T20 Bangladesh.