# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/athula-samarasekera
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:02:57.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/athula-samarasekera"
name: "Athula Samarasekera"
slug: "athula-samarasekera"
description: "Maitipage Athula Rohitha Samarasekera is a Sri Lankan Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He was a hard hitting opening batsman and a medium fast bowler, who played four Tests and 39 One Day Internationals between 1983 and 1994."
tagline: "Sri Lankan cricketer"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1961-08-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           6.204716
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  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump