Tharindu Fernando Italian Cricketer - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Tharindu Fernando Italian Cricketer
- Warnakulasuriya Tharindu Nimantha Fernando (born 1 May 1987) is an Italian cricketer of Sri Lankan origin.
- He made his debut for the Italian national side at the 2013 European T20 Championship.A right-handed batsman bowling occasional medium pace, Fernando played only a single match in his debut tournament, making a four-ball duck against Guernsey.
- By winning the European T20 Championship, Italy qualified for the 2013 World Twenty20 Qualifier, where matches had full Twenty20 status.
- Although he featured in both of Italy's warm-up games (against Bermuda and the Netherlands), in the full tournament Fernando played only in the last game of the competition, the ninth-place playoff against Namibia.
- In his only full Twenty20 match to date, he scored two runs before being run out by Craig Williams, and did not bowl.
- Fernando played his first full tournament for Italy in June 2014, playing all six matches at the 2014 WCL Division Four tournament in Singapore.
- His best performance there came in the match against Malaysia, where he scored 43 from 62 balls coming in seventh in the batting order, featuring in an 82-run sixth-wicket stand with Alessandro Bonora.Fernando has been included in Italy's squad for its next major tournament, the 2015 European T20 Championship in Jersey.
