| Tharindu Fernando | |
| Fullname: | Warnakulasuriya Tharindu Nimantha Fernando |
| Birth Date: | 1 May 1987 |
| Birth Place: | Chilaw, Sri Lanka |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Role: | Batsman |
| International: | true |
| Country: | Italy |
| Internationalspan: | 2013– |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | T20 |
| Matches1: | 1 |
| Runs1: | 2 |
| Bat Avg1: | 2.00 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 2 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 0/– |
| Date: | 8 May |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1491/1491434/1491434.html CricketArchive |
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.[1]
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.[2] By winning the European T20 Championship, Italy qualified for the 2013 World Twenty20 Qualifier, where matches had full Twenty20 status.[3] 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.[4] Fernando played his first full tournament for Italy in June 2014, playing all six matches at the 2014 WCL Division Four tournament in Singapore.[5] 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.[6]
Fernando has been included in Italy's squad for its next major tournament, the 2015 European T20 Championship in Jersey.[7]