Niluka Amarasena outstanding cricketer, coach and scorer

Niluka Amarasena, an old girl of Swarnamali BalikaVidyalaya,Kandy is an official Woman Cricket scorer, who is a Level one Cricket coach as well. Niluka was appointed a Cricket scorer in the year 2011 by Sri Lanka Cricket and she has completed Ten years this year while she is the most experienced cricket scorer in the Hill Capital. She started Club cricket after leaving school and straight away joined the Kandy Ladies Cricket team under the Coaching of Bernard Perera, Harold Ranasinghe and SidathKasturiratne.

After continuous training She was selected to the Central Province Womens’ Cricket team and they became Champions at the National Games in 2009 and 2010. She has represented Chilaw Marians, andMatale District Womens’ Cricket team and later on played in the Inter District Cricket Tournament conducted by Sri Lanka Cricket under the Captaincy of Sweeni de Alwis and Some of the other members of the team were Dedunu de Silva,Prabha Udawatte and Inoka Galagedara to name a few.

Niluka is a right hand middle order Batswoman and right arm off spinner who can keep wickets too and her best bowling figures were claiming Six wickets for twelve runs against Kegalle District team, her highest score being 42 runs against the same district team. She is attached to the New League Cricket Academy as an Assistant Coach and a visiting Cricket Coach as well for Ladies Cricket teams in and around Kandy district. Niluka has dedicated her duties as an official cricket coach for the last ten years and being a spinster she is able to pay her full attention in promoting Cricket among women cricketers functioning as an officieal scorer too. Her intention is to continue her Cricket ability as long as she is fit to do so.