Sri Lankan cricket umpire
Nimali Perera
Full name Thuse Perera Liyanaralalage Nimali Dinushani Perera
Born (1990-12-13 ) 13 December 1990 (age 33) Kaluthara , Sri LankaBatting Right-handed Bowling Right-arm slow Role Umpire
Years Team 2013–2015 Sri Lanka Army Sports Club
WODIs umpired5 (2023–2024) WT20Is umpired37 (2022–2024) LA umpired3 (2022)
Nimali Perera (born 13 December 1990) is a Sri Lankan cricket umpire .[ 1] She is currently a member of Development Panel of ICC Umpires .[ 2] [ 3] She was one of the female umpires named by the ICC to stand in matches in the 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup .[ 4] [ 5] Perera played for Sri Lanka Army Sports Club in domestic cricket.[ 6]
Career
In July 2022, she was added to the ICC's Development panel for the first time.[ 7] She was the first female umpire from Sri Lanka to feature in a T20 World Cup.[ 8] She officiated in List A matches in the Major Clubs Limited Over Tournament in 2022 and she stood in her first List A match on 19 July 2022, between Panadura and Kandy .[ 9] [ 10]
She stood as an umpire in her first Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) in the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup , in the game between Malaysia and Pakistan on 2 October 2022.[ 11] She also officiate in the semi-final match between India and Australia of 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup, along with New Zealand's Kim Cotton .[ 12] She stood in her first Women's One Day International (WODI) between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh on 29 April 2023, when Bangladesh tour to Sri Lanka .[ 13]
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