Tony Opatha

Personal information

Full name

Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha

Born

5 August 1947
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Batting style

Right-hand bat

Bowling style

Right-arm medium

Role

Bowler

International information

National side

Sri Lanka

ODI debut (cap 6)

7 June 1975 v West Indies

Last ODI

16 June 1979 v India

Career statistics

Competition	ODIs	FC	LA
Matches	5	39	20
Runs scored	29	790	100
Batting average	9.66	17.17	7.69
100s/50s	0/0	0/3	0/0
Top score	18	65	19
Balls bowled	253	n/a	1,092
Wickets	5	111	21
Bowling average	36.00	30.74	33.85
5 wickets in innings	0	2	0
10 wickets in match	0	0	0
Best bowling	3/31	6/91	3/20
Catches/stumpings	3/–	24/–	8/–

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 24 December 2014

Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha (born August 5, 1947, Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. A right-arm medium pace bowler, he played five One Day Internationals at the 1975 and 1979 Cricket World Cups.

External links

Cricinfo article on Tony Opatha

Sri Lanka squad – 1975 Cricket World Cup

1 Tennekoon (c) 2 GRA de Silva 3 DS de Silva 4 Fernando (wk) 5 Heyn 6 Kaluperuma 7 Mendis 8 Opatha 9 Pieris 10 Ranasinghe 11 Tissera 12 Warnapura 13 Wettimuny

Sri Lanka squad – 1979 Cricket World Cup

1 Tennekoon (c) 2 GRA de Silva 3 DS de Silva 4 DLS de Silva 5 Dias 6 Gunatilleke 7 Jayasinghe (wk) 8 Madugalle 9 Mendis 10 Opatha 11 Pasqual 12 Warnapura 13 Wettimuny

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