Malinga Bandara Cricket Stats & Career Records

Category: Bowler International team: Sri Lanka Career: 1998–2010

Malinga Bandara is a bowler associated with Sri Lanka, with an international career span of 1998–2010. Across the normalized career records available here, Malinga Bandara has 296 runs and 56 wickets across Test, ODI and/or T20I formats where records are available.

Malinga Bandara Career Stats

Career figures are cross-checked against the independent scorecard-derived layer. Exact matches are verified automatically; small source under-counts are corrected only when the scorecard layer is complete and identity-safe.

FormatCareerMatchesInningsRunsHSBat Avg50s100sWicketsBBIBowl Avg
✓ verified 1998–2006 8 11 124 43 15.50 0 0 16 3/84 39.56
✓ verified 2006–2010 31 17 160 31 12.31 0 0 36 4/31 34.22
✓ verified 2006–2009 4 3 12 7 6.00 0 0 4 3/32 24.00

Career rows are automatically cross-checked against the independent detailed-scorecard layer. Canonical team aliases are merged, representative-XI internationals are included for the same verified person, and conflicts are kept out of the verified state.

Detailed Data Coverage

The career total and the independent detailed-scorecard layer are compared format by format. A format is labelled Verified only when the corrected career total and detailed match total agree and the available runs/wickets reconcile.

FormatCareer matchesDetailed matchesCoverageCross-source checkStatus
TEST88100.0%VerifiedVerified
ODI3131100.0%VerifiedVerified
T20I44100.0%VerifiedVerified
Data integrity: Career summary validated · Detailed scorecard coverage 100.0% of career matches currently represented.

Malinga Bandara Dismissals & Head-to-Head

Two evidence levels are kept separate: historical scorecards for career dismissal relationships, and Cricsheet for delivery-level international matchups where ball-by-ball data exists.

Level 1Historical scorecards

Who dismissed whom

23career batting dismissals in scorecards
17dismissals with bowler identified
47 / 56career wickets linked to a named batter

How these totals relate: 17 of 23 batting dismissals name the bowler; 6 do not. The breakdown below totals the named-bowler dismissals only. On the bowling side, 47 of 56 verified career wickets have a usable named-batter dismissal link in this scorecard source.

Source check: summary totals reconcile with the full underlying scorecard breakdown.

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Malinga Bandara as batter

Showing the top 14 bowlers. Across all 14 named bowlers, the full breakdown sums to 17 dismissals.

BowlerTimes outHow
Anil Kumble2caught, lbw
Shahid Afridi2stumping, caught
Umar Gul2bowled, caught
Abdul Razzaq1caught
Andrew Symonds1caught
Danish Kaneria1bowled
Glenn McGrath1caught
Irfan Pathan1bowled
Jacob Oram1caught
Mark Gillespie1caught
Mohammad Asif1caught
Shahadat Hossain1caught
Shane Bond1caught
Zaheer Khan1lbw

Malinga Bandara as bowler

Showing the top 20 batters. Across all 35 named batters, the full breakdown sums to 47 wickets.

BatterWicketsHow
Anil Kumble2caught, bowled
Ashwell Prince2caught
Habibul Bashar2lbw
Justin Kemp2bowled, lbw
Mashrafe Mortaza2caught
Michael Clarke2caught
Mohammad Ashraful2bowled, caught
Mohammad Kaif2caught, lbw
MS Dhoni2caught, bowled
Mushfiqur Rahim2caught
Yasir Hameed2lbw, caught
Yuvraj Singh2caught
Ajit Agarkar1caught
Brad Hogg1caught
Brett Lee1caught
Graeme Smith1caught
James Hopes1caught
Javed Omar1lbw
Kamran Akmal1bowled
Mark Boucher1caught
Level 2Cricsheet ball by ball

Head-to-head matchups

Building the complete sitewide Cricsheet matchup index. Level-2 tables stay hidden until the one-time sitewide scan has finished, so no player is shown with a partial ball-by-ball table.

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Ball-by-ball tables will appear automatically when the complete sitewide Cricsheet international index is ready.

Strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Economy = runs conceded per six-ball over.

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