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February 10, 2009
Triple role Tillakaratne
Tillakaratne Dilshan will captain, keep and open in today's T20 game against India.
If he doesn't trip over a teammate's lengthy name, like Hettiarachchi Gamage Jeevantha Mahesh Kulatunga, he will become the third player, after Gilchrist & McCullum to have played a triple role in a T20 international.
In fact, there have only been 7 other players across 132 years of tests, 38 years of ODIs & 3 years of T20 internationals to have opened, captained and kept wickets in a game.
Labels: dilshan, sri lanka, statistic
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Hi,
I was wondering whether this was the only international fixture where both wicketkeepers were captaining their respective sides?
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Mayuresh Gaikwad (12 Feb 2009, 1:58:00 pm)
Nice question, Mayuresh. Turns it out that it had happened 18 times in all intl cricket - 5 times in tests (http://is.gd/jhC2) 12 times in ODIs (http://is.gd/jhCn) and 1 time in T20 internationals (http://is.gd/jhCH)
By Jagadish (12 Feb 2009, 7:00:00 pm)
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