Michael Tissera Cricketer
Michael Hugh Tissera (born March 23, 1939, Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played three ODIs in the 1975 World Cup competition. He was educated at the prestigious S. Thomas College in Mount Lavinia where, initially appearing in 1954 aged fourteen, he captained the Thomian cricket team at the Royal Thomian Test series which is known as The Battle of the Blues on two occasions in 1957 and 1958. He made his first-class debut the following year, in March 1959, in the annual Gopalan Trophy encounter with Madras. A stalwart of Sri Lankan cricket, he managed the national team between 2005 and 2007.
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| Birth date | March 23, 1939 |
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