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Wirantha Fernando (6 February 1959 - 17 April 2000) was a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer and politician. ==Cricket career== Fernando, who went to Prince of Wales' College in Moratuwa, captained the Combined Schools team in his youth.〔''Daily News'',("Kusal – first Cambrian to lead Sri Lanka under 19 team" ), 26 August 2013〕 He represented the Sri Lanka Under-19 cricket team in a tour of Pakistan in 1976 and again in 1978, when the Australia Under-19 cricket team came to the island.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Miscellaneous Matches Played By Wirantha Fernando (21) )〕 A right-handed middle order batsman, Fernando played for the Colts Cricket Club throughout the 1980s and had the distinction of captaining them in all five matches they played in the 1988/89 Lakspray Trophy, the first time the tournament had first-class status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Lakspray Trophy 1988/89 )〕 He was the club's leading run-scorer that season with 208 runs at 52.00, which included three half centuries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Batting And Fielding For Colts Cricket Club )〕 In the 1989/90 Lakspray Trophy, Fernando handed over the captaincy to Rupanath Wickramaratne and amassed only 130 runs in the three matches he played, but did score his maiden first-class century, an innings of 111 against Moratuwa Sports Club at the Colts Cricket Club Ground.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Colts Cricket Club v Moratuwa Sports Club in 1989/90 )〕〔 Fernando didn't play at first-class level in either of the next two seasons, then returned in 1992/93, with the Moratuwa Sports Club. He appeared in all five matches of Moratuwa's Saravanamuttu Trophy campaign, which saw them not lose a match and finish second in Group B.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Saravanamuttu Trophy 1992/93 )〕 His own contributions were minimal, making 163 runs at 32.60.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Batting And Fielding For Moratuwa Sports Club )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wirantha Fernando」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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