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Sajan Fernando

Sri Lankan cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ7402615 ↗
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Sajan Fernando was a Sri Lankan cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Moratuwa Sports Club.

Fernando made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 2003–04 season, against Singha Sports Club. From the lower-middle order, he scored 8 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and, when taken further down the order in the second innings, scored a duck.

Fernando bowled 6 overs in the match, taking figures of 2-32.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sajan Fernando” as sri Lankan cricketer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-11-28. The account is most persuasive where Sajan, Fernando and Lankan can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sajan Fernando” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.