About Sidath Wettimuny
Sidath Wettimuny is a Sri Lankan former cricketer, who played Test cricket and One Day Internationals as an opening batsman from 1982 to 1987. Wettimuny was a typical 1980s opening batsman in that he often played very defensively, grafting for his runs, and his ODI strike rate of 48 shows this quite clearly. In 1985, he was named as one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year. Wettimuny did not impress in his first Test match, however, scoring only 15 runs in two innings as England won by seven wickets. Sri Lanka won the match by three runs, thus drawing their first ODI series.
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