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(born
November 24 ,
1969 ,
Colombo ) is a former
Sri Lanka n
Cricket er who played in 49
Tests and 189
ODI s from 1990 to 2004.
His younger career made him look like a good Sri Lankan prospect. However, he failed to deliver the goods to a constantly deteriorating Sri Lankan team (previous to the revival of Sri Lankan cricket in the 1996 World Cup). Once in the national side, he often uselessly threw his wicket away and was suspect to the swinging delivery. For a wicket-keeper, he surprisingly did not like pace and hated the ball coming onto his bat. His greatest contribution to
ODI s came after
Sanath Jayasuriya was promoted to the top of the batting order during the 1995-96 tour of Australia, and, with him, gave birth to an aggressive batting approach to the first fifteen overs, most of the times crossing the century-mark for the team.
His wicket-keeping abilities are commendable, often chirping in the field and encouraging a lack-lustre side which does not consistently show what it is really made of. On a charitable side, Romesh has been contributing to charity work in the impoverished Northern part of Sri-Lanka along with his long time cricket companion Muttiah "the Lord of the Spin" Muralitharan. Forever will be missed of the little figure who would try very hard to exorcise the true qualities of the Sri Lankan team. He is nicknamed 'Kalu' and announced his retirement in
2004 , paving the way for Kumar Sangakarra who has filled the shoes of this arduous role in the now fledgling Sri-Lankan squad who are in danger of losing to the smaller Test nations of Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.
