World Cup Qualifiers: Dimuth Karunaratne scored his maiden ODI century

Dimuth Karunaratne Maiden ODI Century SL vs IRE. In the World Cup qualifier match being played in Zimbabwe, on 25th June i.e. today, Sri Lanka is facing Ireland. In this match, Ireland won the toss and decided to bowl first. While batting first, Dimuth Karunaratne scored the first century of his ODI career while batting brilliantly for the Sri Lankan team.

The Sri Lankan team has got a lot of strength from this century of Dimuth. Let us tell you that along with scoring a century, Dimuth has made many records in his name. Let us know in detail about these records.

Dimuth Karunaratne scored the first century of his ODI career

In fact, while batting first for Sri Lanka, opening batsman Pathum Nissanka lost his wicket for 20 runs. After this, Dimuth Karunaratne and Sadeera Samarawickrama handled the team's innings and there was a partnership of more than 160 runs between the two. This partnership was the biggest ODI partnership for Sri Lanka.

Both the batsmen left behind the partnership of Dilshan and Tharanga in 2010 with this partnership of 161 runs. Let us tell you that Dimuth's bat thundered fiercely in the match and he scored his first century of ODI cricket career. Dimuth was bowled after scoring 103 runs in 103 balls.

Dimuth Karunaratne also completed his 1000 runs in ODIs with this. He became the 35th Sri Lankan batsman to do so. At the same time, Dimuth's name has been added to Sri Lanka's record of scoring more than 50 runs in ODI innings for any consecutive year. In the year 2023, Dimuth has scored more than 50 runs in ODIs for a total of 5 times for Sri Lanka.

Batsmen with 50+ scores in consecutive ODI innings for Sri Lanka

Sanath Jayasuriya in 1997 - 5 times in total

Tillakaratne Dilshan in 2013 – 5 times in total

Kumar Sangakkara - in 2014 - 5 times in total

Dinesh Chandimal - in 2016 - 5 times in total

Dimuth Karunaratne - 5 times in 2023

Became the first player to score 3 centuries against Ireland

Please tell that Dimuth Karunaratne has become the first player to score 3 centuries against Ireland in international cricket. He achieved this feat by scoring a century in the qualifier match. Whereas, Dimuth Karunaratne became the oldest Sri Lankan (35 years 65 days) to make his ODI debut at the age of 35. Before him, Thilan Samaraweera (32 years 351 days) had done this feat from Sri Lanka.