Happy Birthday, Chaminda Vaas: Priest turned successful bowler
Chaminda Vaas whose dream was to become a pastor became a cricketer.
Born on this day on 27 January 1974 in Vattala near Colombo, Chaminda has achieved many achievements as a successful bowler in a career spanning 15 years.
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Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas is a former Sri Lankan international cricketer, who played all forms of the game, and a former ODI captain who is often described as the greatest fast bowler Sri Lanka has produced’, due to his highly accurate lines, lengths, and capability of swinging the ball.
Chaminda was born in a Catholic family. Because of this, his family was a religious family. Whose far and wide had nothing to do with cricket. He wanted to become a priest from birth, for which he had to spend 12 to 14 years. In the meantime, he joined cricket and soon he became a successful cricketer.
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Batting & Fielding Average-
| Type | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 111 | 162 | 35 | 3089 | 100* | 7033 | 43.92 | 1 | 13 | 376 | 16 | 31 | 0 |
| ODIs | 322 | 220 | 72 | 2025 | 50* | 2796 | 72.42 | 0 | 1 | 127 | 22 | 60 | 0 |
| T20Is | 6 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 21 | 41 | 80.48 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| First-class | 227 | 300 | 59 | 6223 | 134 | 4 | 29 | 57 | 0 | ||||
| List A | 412 | 284 | 90 | 3220 | 76* | 0 | 8 | 83 | 0 | ||||
| T20s | 56 | 46 | 9 | 672 | 73 | 608 | 110.52 | 0 | 4 | 60 | 15 | 8 | 0 |
Bowling Average-
| Type | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 111 | 194 | 23438 | 10501 | 355 | 7/71 | 14/191 | 29.58 | 2.68 | 66.0 | 20 | 12 | 2 |
| ODIs | 322 | 320 | 15775 | 11014 | 400 | 8/19 | 8/19 | 27.53 | 4.18 | 39.4 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| T20Is | 6 | 6 | 132 | 128 | 6 | 2/14 | 2/14 | 21.33 | 5.81 | 22.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| First-class | 227 | 41266+ | 19027 | 772 | 7/28 | 24.64 | 2.75* | 53.8* | 34 | 4 | |||
| List A | 412 | 19411 | 13476 | 506 | 8/19 | 8/19 | 26.63 | 4.16 | 38.3 | 12 | 4 | 0 | |
| T20s | 56 | 54 | 1131 | 1278 | 64 | 3/16 | 3/16 | 19.96 | 6.77 | 17.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chaminda Vaas became the most prominent bowler of the Sri Lankan cricket team. Vaas strengthened Sri Lanka as a batsman. The biggest example of which was given in Colombo on 8 December 2001. In which Zimbabwe was piled up for just 39 runs. These were very shocking and the shortest score at that time. In this match, he took 8 wickets in 8 overs by making 3 maidens.
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Vaas finished his career with 761 international wickets. He is one of only 4 bowlers to take Four hundred ODI wickets. And now, even after over twenty years since the feat, he still has the best ODI bowling figures.