Roger Wijesuriya easily makes it to the list of most ineffective bowlers to have ever played Test cricket. A left-arm finger spinner by design, he didn’t have a great deal of fizz in his b...
Full profile Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | Runs | BF | HS | Avg | SR | NO | 4s | 6s | 50 | 100 | 200 |
Test | 4 | 7 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 4.4 | 100.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ODI | 8 | 3 | 18 | 48 | 12 | 18 | 37.50 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
T20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
IPL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR | BBI | BBM | 5w | 10w |
Test | 4 | 5 | 586 | 294 | 1 | 294.0 | 3.01 | 586.0 | 1/68 | 1/77 | 0 | 0 |
ODI | 8 | 8 | 312 | 287 | 8 | 35.88 | 5.52 | 39.0 | 2/25 | 2/25 | 0 | 0 |
T20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | -/- | -/- | 0 | 0 |
IPL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | -/- | -/- | 0 | 0 |
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Roger Wijesuriya easily makes it to the list of most ineffective bowlers to have ever played Test cricket. A left-arm finger spinner by design, he didn’t have a great deal of fizz in his bowling and almost always depended on frustrating the batsmen for a wicket rather than plotting their downfall with craft. Still, he was a force during his U19 days and had reasonable numbers in domestic cricket across both formats. However, like a few other domestic stars in the spin department, he struggled badly at the highest level. Just a solitary Test wicket from almost 98 overs across four Tests is a shambolic stat for any bowler, especially for a spinner who played all his matches in the sub-continent. Opposition batsmen were willing to outdo him in terms of patience and it was a battle that Roger could never win. Even his ODI career was extremely brief and was quite expensive in the games that he played in.
Written by Hariprasad Sadanandan