 Senanayake College, Colombo he won the Sri Lanka's School Boy Cricketer of the Year in 1993.For his long term club sides Bloomfield and later NCC, he plied his trade for many years as a regular number 3 batsman playing alongside Sri Lankan names like Sanath Jayasuriya, Aravinda De Silva, Hashan Tillekaratne and Kumar Sangakkara.His first class average was 40 and he got an opportunity to showcase this in 2002 almost 5 years after his first international ODI appearance and many years after his first ever international tour with Arjuna Rantunga's side to the Caribbean as a benchwarmer.