Nishan Peiris

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Nishan Peiris
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Personal information
Full name
Kurukulasooriya Nishan Peiris
Born (1997-08-11) 11 August 1997 (age 28)
Negombo, Sri Lanka
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off-break
RoleBowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 167)26 September 2024 v New Zealand
Last Test6 February 2025 v Australia
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2016–2018Badureliya Sports Club
2017–presentColombo Cricket Club
2018–2020Ragama Cricket Club
2021–2023Negombo Cricket Club
2019–presentGalle Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition Test FC LA T20
Matches 3 52 61 39
Runs scored 9 389 369 88
Batting average 3.00 8.64 12.30 6.76
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 5 46 34* 17
Balls bowled 789 9,742 2,821 664
Wickets 12 202 86 43
Bowling average 43.33 27.55 22.52 16.65
5 wickets in innings 1 14 2 0
10 wickets in match 0 1 0 0
Best bowling 6/170 8/94 5/16 4/3
Catches/stumpings 0/– 20/– 14/– 14/–
Source: Cricinfo, 29 March 2025

Kurukulasooriya Nishan Peiris (born 11 August 1997) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer currently plays Test cricket for the national team. He is a right-arm off-break bowler and plays for the Colombo Cricket Club in domestic cricket.[1]

Domestic career

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He made his first-class debut for Badureliya Sports Club in the 2015–16 Premier League Tournament on 19 February 2016.[2] He made his Twenty20 debut for Ragama Cricket Club in the 2017–18 SLC Twenty20 Tournament on 24 February 2018.[3] He made his List A debut for Ragama Cricket Club in the 2017–18 Premier Limited Overs Tournament on 11 March 2018.[4]

In March 2018, he was named in Galle's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament.[5][6] The following month, he was also named in Galle's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.[7] In August 2018, he was named in Galle's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League.[8] He was the leading wicket-taker in the 2018–19 Premier Limited Overs Tournament, with 20 dismissals in six matches.[9]

In March 2019, he was named in Galle's squad for the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.[10] Peiris continued to make strides at domestic circuit and he had a stellar 2024 National Super League 4-Day Tournament, where he capped off the tournament on a high note by emerging as the leading wicket-taker of the tournament with 35 scalps averaging 14.68 in across 6 matches representing Galle.[11][12]

International career

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In August 2018, Sri Lanka Cricket named him in a preliminary squad of 31 players for the 2018 Asia Cup.[13] In November 2018, he was added to Sri Lanka's squad as a replacement for Akila Dananjaya ahead of the third Test against England.[14][15][16] In December 2018, he was named in Sri Lanka team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup.[17] In March 2024, he was named in Sri Lankan test squad for their test series against Bangladesh as the selection think-tank decided to add an extra spinner for the series and as a result, Peiris made the cut replacing seamer Milan Rathnayake.[18][19][20]

In September 2024, Peiris was drafted as a replacement for Vishwa Fernando, as the latter had confronted a leg injury prior to the start of the second test match against New Zealand.[21][22] Peiris made test debut against New Zealand in the second test, replacing Ramesh Mendis.[23][11][24] In the first innings, he got 3 wickets and helped Prabath Jayasuriya to dismantle New Zealand for 88 runs.[25][26] In the second innings, he took his maiden five wicket haul and ended with 6 for 170 runs, where Sri Lanka won the match by an innings and 154 runs and series 2–0.[27][28][29] He became only the fourth Sri Lankan to take a six-wicket haul in an innings on test debut and with a match bag of nine wickets, he was only behind Prabath Jayasuriya and Praveen Jayawickrama for having taken most number of wickets by a Sri Lankan bowler on test debut.[30][31]

In January 2025, he was named in Sri Lanka's test squad for their two-match test series against Australia.[32] During Australia' first innings, under scorching sun, he alongside his spin compatriots Prabath Jayasuriya and Jeffrey Vandersay bowled a marathon spell of overs combining a record total of 139 overs and out of which Peiris bowled a total of 41 overs.[33] He conceded 189 runs during the marathon spell of 41 overs with a slightly expensive economy rate of 4.61 and during the process he also set the record for having registered the worst bowling figures by a Sri Lankan bowler in an innings of a test match as he ended up wicketless throughout his quota of overs despite having leaked 189 runs.[34]

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