Sudat Pasqual[/caption]
Q: What are you doing these days? A: I’m living in Calgary, Canada these days with my wife and two daughters.
Q: About your early days?
A: I’m coming from Matugama. My father is Ananda Pasqual who was an educationist. My mother’s name was Lakshmi. Daya T. Pasqual who was Matugama Member of Parliament from 1956 to 1977 was my uncle.
I have two brothers, Ajitha, who captained Royal College in 1973, and Pramith. My sister is Ayomi who now lives in New Zealand.
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Sudat now in Calgary, Canada with his family[/caption]
I moved to Royal for my studies when I was in grade five. My cricket coaches there were one Senanayake, Col. H.T. Gunasekara, Gamini Salgado, and Mahes Rodrigo.
Q: Early cricketing carer?
A: I was selected to play for Sri Lanka Under-19 in 1979 to play in the Ali Bhutto trophy encounter against Pakistan Under-19. The team included Ranjan Madugalle, Rohan Bultjens, Arul Musaphar, Rumesh Ratnayake, Ravi Ratnayeke, and Vinothen John. In 1980 I played for Sri Lanka Schools against the Indians which featured Ravi Shastri.
Q: On your career with Royal College?
A: I played our Big Match against S. Thomas’ in the years of 1978, 79, and 80. In the year 1979, I fared well for the school in the then Exide Trophy tournament scoring 700 plus runs and taking over 40 wickets. I was born on October 15 1961. So, when I was 17 years, I was picked for the Board President’s XI that played in the Robert Senanayake Trophy domestic tournament.
Q: Then you were picked for the Sri Lanka team?
A: Yes. That was for that long tour of England to play in both the International Cricket Council (ICC) Trophy for the associate member and the World Cup that year. We had to qualify for the World Cup by entering the ICC Trophy finals. We won that beating Canada in the finals.
Then our victory against India in the World Cup justified our cause to get Test status subsequently.
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SUDAT PRAJIV PASQUAL
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Sudat Pasqual bats in a match between SL U-19 vs. Pakistan U-19, led by Javed Qureshi, at P. Sara Oval. SL U-19 won by 47 runs[/caption]
Born: 15 Oct., 1961
Current age: 59
Batting: Left-handed
Bowling: Right-arm medium
Records
Batting: 2 ODIs, 24 runs (highest 23 n.o.) at an average of 24.00
Highlights: Pasqual played in the 1979 Prudential World Cup in England for Sri Lanka in two ODIs, against New Zealand and India. Sri Lanka beat India in Manchester on 18 June 1979 to record their first-ever win over a Test-playing country in an ODI match. In that game, Pasqual score 23 n.o. in 26 balls having a decisive partnership for the fifth wicket with Duleep Mendis for 52 runs. In his debut match on 9 June 1979, played against New Zealand in Nottingham, Sudat set a record as the youngest ever to play ODI cricket for Sri Lanka, a record which still remains intact.
First-class cricket: In seven matches, 250 runs (highest 101 n.o.) at an average of 35.71; In bowling, three wickets with the best being 3/34
THE YOUNGESTS IN ALL FORMATS - IN BOTH SRI LANKA & WORLD
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The 17-year-old Pasqual (standing second from left) with (from left standing) the late Sunil Jayasinghe, Rohan Jayasekera, who is also living in Canada now, late Abu Fuard, (seated from left) Somachandra de Silva, late Tony Opatha, and Duleep Mendis with the SL squad in England for the historic 1977 Prudential World Cup and the ICC Trophy[/caption]
* IN TEST CRICKET
World: Hasan Raza of Pakistan
Debut: 14 years and 227 days
(Vs. Zimbabwe in Faisalabad on 24 October 1996)
SL: Sanjeewa Weerasinghe*
Debut: 17 years and 189 days
* Weerasinghe is 25th youngest in the world
(Vs. India in Colombo on 6 September 1985)
* IN ODI CRICKET
World: Hasan Raza of Pakistan
Debut: 14 years and 233 days
(Vs. Zimbabwe in Quetta on 30 October 1996)
SL: Sudat Pasqual*
Debut: 17 years and 237 days
* Pasqual is the 40th in the world
(Vs. New Zealand in Nottingham on 9 June 1979)
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The historic World Cup win against India in 1979 in Manchester as was reported by Reuters on 16 June[/caption]
* IN T20I CRICKET
World: Meet Bhavsar of Kuwait
Debut: 14 years and 211 days
(Vs. Maldives in Al Amerat on 20 January 2019)
SL: Akila Dananjaya*
Debut: 18 years and 359 days
* Dananjaya is the 130th in the world
(Vs. New Zealand in Pallekele on 27 September 2012)