| Neil Chanmugam | |
| Fullname: | Dunkirk Neilendran Chanmugam |
| Birth Date: | 13 May 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Colombo, Ceylon |
| Death Place: | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Family: | Dennis Chanmugam (brother) Dipika Chanmugam (daughter) |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm off-spin |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 21 |
| Runs1: | 593 |
| Bat Avg1: | 17.44 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/1 |
| Top Score1: | 72 |
| Deliveries1: | 3488 |
| Wickets1: | 55 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 26.32 |
| Fivefor1: | 1 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 5/47 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 13/– |
| Date: | 17 February 2019 |
| Source: | ESPNcricinfo |
Neil Chanmugam (13 May 1940 - 22 April 2014) was a Sri Lankan cricketer.[1] He played first-class cricket for Ceylon and domestic teams in Sri Lanka between 1960 and 1974.[2]
Chanmugam was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, and the University of Colombo.[3] He was an off-spin bowler and useful lower-order batsman who toured India with the Ceylon team in 1964-65 and Pakistan in 1966-67. His best first-class bowling figures were 5 for 47 and 3 for 43 in the drawn match against the touring Australians in October 1969, when he dismissed Bill Lawry twice.[4] His highest score was 72 against the West Indians in January 1967, when he and Ian Pieris took Ceylon's first innings score from 290 for 9 to 400 all out.[5]
Chanmugam was also a keen golfer.[1] He served as the manager of the Sri Lankan cricket teams to England in 1984 and Australia in 1984-85.[6]
He was the director of a television company in Sri Lanka and the director of tea exports at Maharajahs Ltd.[6] [3] He married Oosha de Saram, the daughter of the Ceylon cricket captain Fredrick de Saram, and they had three children.[1] [7]