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Eshani Kaushalya

Personal information
Full name	Lokusuriyage Eshani Kaushalya
Born	(1984-06-01) 1 June 1984 (age 40) Panadura, Sri Lanka
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium
International information
National side	Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 31)	22 March 2005 v India
Last ODI	15 July 2017 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no.	3
T20I debut (cap 6)	12 June 2009 v Pakistan
Last T20I	16 November 2018 v West Indies
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I Matches 89 68 Runs scored 1219 780 Batting average 15.62 14.18 100s/50s 0/5 0/1 Top score 65* 50 Balls bowled 2095 734 Wickets 49 36 Bowling average 30.42 19.77 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 Best bowling 3/23 4/18 Catches/stumpings 13/– 16/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 19 September 2021
Medal record Representing  Sri Lanka Women's Cricket Asian Games 2014 Incheon Team

Eshani Kaushalya (also known as Eshani Lokusuriyage, born 1 June 1984) is a Sri Lankan former cricketer who played for the Sri Lanka national women's cricket team. An all-rounder, she played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.

Kaushalya made her debut against India during the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup, scoring seven runs. She collected her first international wicket later in the tournament, trapping West Indian Juliana Nero leg before wicket. She batted well for Sri Lanka during the 2006 Women's Asia Cup, finishing top of the batting averages for her country, scoring 106 runs at 35.33, including her career high score of 57. During the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup, she scored two half-centuries, against England and India, and was named as part of the team of the tournament by the International Cricket Council.

In February 2016, she along with Ama Kanchana recorded the highest 8th wicket partnership in WT20I history (39).

In October 2018, she was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.

In October 2021, she announced her retirement from cricket.

References

1. "Player Profile: Eshani Kaushalya". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
2. ^ "Statistics / Statsguru / LE Kaushalya / Women's One-Day Internationals". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
3. "16th Match: Sri Lanka Women v West Indies Women at Benoni, Mar 28, 2005". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
4. "Records / Women's Asia Cup, 2006/07 - Sri Lanka Women / Batting and bowling averages". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
5. "ICC names ICC Women's World Cup India 2013 Team of the Tournament". International Cricket Council. 18 February 2013. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
6. "Records | Women's Twenty20 Internationals | Partnership records | Highest partnerships by wicket | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
7. "3rd T20I: India Women v Sri Lanka Women at Ranchi, Feb 26, 2016 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
8. "Squads confirmed for ICC Women's World T20 2018". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
9. "Sri Lanka allrounder Eshani Lokusuriyage retires at 37". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 October 2021.

Sri Lanka squads

v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup 1 de Alwis 2 Dolawatte (c) 3 Ekanayake 4 Fernando 5 Galagedara 6 Gunaratne 7 Lokusuriyage 8 Mala 9 Pereira 10 Polgampola 11 Silva 12 Siriwardene 13 Udawatte 14 Weerakkody v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup 2 Silva 5 Manodara 7 Kaushalya 17 Galagedara Siriwardene (c) de Alwis WHD Fernando WRP Fernando Kariyawasam Polgampola Abeywickrama Prabodhani Rasangika Wickramasinghe Coach: unknown Chamani Seneviratne was included in the original squad but withdrew due to injury; her place was taken by Sanduni Abeywickrama. v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2009 Women's World Twenty20 1 Polgampola (c) 2 Abeywickrema 3 Athapaththu 4 Bandara 5 Dolawatte 6 H Fernando 7 R Fernando 8 S Fernando 9 Galagedara 10 Kaushalya 11 Manodara (wk) 12 Prabodhani 13 Rasangika 14 Weerakkody v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2010 Women's World Twenty20 1 Seneviratne (c) 2 Manodara (wk) 3 de Alwis 4 Dolawatte 5 H Fernando 6 Galagedara 7 Athapaththu 8 Kaushalya 9 Polgampola 10 Prabodhani 11 Rasangika 12 Silva 13 Weerakkody 14 Wickramasinghe v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2012 Women's World Twenty20 1 Siriwardene (c) 2 Dolawatte 3 Athapaththu 4 Galagedara 5 Kaushalya 6 Mendis 7 Prabodhani 8 Ranaweera 9 Rasangika 10 Samuddika 11 Seneviratne 12 Manodara (wk) 13 P Weerakkody 14 S Weerakkody v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup 1 Atapattu 2 Dolawatte 3 Kaushalya 4 Madushani 5 Siriwardene (c) 6 Manodara 7 Mendis 8 Prabodhani 9 Ranasinghe 10 Ranaweera 11 Rasangika 12 Ravikumar 13 Seneviratna 14 P Weerakkody 15 S Weerakkody v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2014 Women's World Twenty20 1 Siriwardene (c) 2 Athapaththu 3 de Silva 4 Gunaratne 5 Kaushalya 6 Mendis 7 Perera 8 Polgampola 9 Prabodhani 10 Ranasinghe 11 Rasangika 12 Samuddika 13 Vandort (wk) 14 S Weerakkody v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2016 Women's World Twenty20 14 Siriwardene (c) 58 Athapaththu 25 Hansika 97 Kanchana 36 Karunaratne 91 Kumari 3 Kaushalya 5 Manodara (wk) 23 Mendis 55 Prabodhani 86 Ranasinghe 18 Ranaweera 9 de Silva 87 Weerakkody v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup 1 Ranaweera (c) 2 Atapattu 3 Gunaratne 4 Hansika 5 Kanchana 6 Kaushalya 7 Samarawickrama 8 Manodara 9 Perera 10 Polgampola 11 Prabodhani 12 Ranasinghe 13 Siriwardene 14 P Weerakkody 15 S Weerakkody v t e Sri Lanka squad – 2018 Women's World Twenty20 1 Athapaththu (c) 2 Dilhari 3 Kanchana 4 Kaushalya 5 Kumari 6 Manodara (wk) 7 Mendis 8 Perera 9 Prabodhani 10 Priyadharshani 11 Ranasinghe 12 de Silva 13 Siriwardene 14 Vandort 15 Weerakkody

• 1984 births
• Living people
• Asian Games medalists in cricket
• Colts Cricket Club cricketers
• Cricketers at the 2014 Asian Games
• Asian Games bronze medalists for Sri Lanka
• Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
• Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club women cricketers
• Sri Lankan women cricketers
• Sri Lanka women One Day International cricketers
• Sri Lanka women Twenty20 International cricketers
• Sri Lanka women cricket captains
• Cricketers from Panadura