| Muttaiah Devaraj | |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| Fullname: | C. T. Muttaiah Devaraj |
| Birth Date: | 16 August 1938 |
| Birth Place: | Batticaloa, Ceylon |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 7 |
| Runs1: | 279 |
| Bat Avg1: | 21.46 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/2 |
| Top Score1: | 85 |
| Deliveries1: | 114 |
| Wickets1: | 0 |
| Bowl Avg1: | – |
| Fivefor1: | – |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | – |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 6/– |
| Date: | 14 April 2017 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/player/48638.html Cricinfo |
Muttaiah Devaraj (born 16 August 1938) is a former cricketer who played seven matches of first-class cricket for Ceylon between 1964 and 1967. He later became a match referee.
Devaraj attended Zahira College, Colombo, where he captained the cricket team in 1958.[1] A middle-order batsman, he toured India with the Ceylon team in 1964-65, playing in five first-class matches but not in any of the matches against India. In the match against Madras he made his highest first-class score of 85, which was also Ceylon's highest score in the match.[2]
He later became a coach, an administrator and a match referee. He served as a match referee in Sri Lankan domestic cricket from 2002 to 2011.[3] He has twice been formally honoured by Sri Lanka Cricket for his services to cricket in Sri Lanka: in 2000[4] and in 2014, when the honour included an award of 300,000 rupees.[5]
In September 2018, he was one of 49 former Sri Lankan cricketers felicitated by Sri Lanka Cricket, to honour them for their services before Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC).[6] [7]