Career
He is a right-handed batsman and a legbreak bowler. He is primarily a leg-spinner, and it was thought that he would be able to capture a regular place in the team However, having suffered from a car crash in August 2003 which killed a woman, he was given a four-month disciplinary ban by the Sri Lankan cricket board.
Having made his return steadily in the 2004 Provincial Tournament, he drifted back into the team, and having seen Muttiah Muralitharan suffer from a shoulder injury he captured a place in the team for the one-day series against South Africa in the Champions Trophy.
He claimed that he had fallen asleep while driving(3). He was subsequently banned for four months by BCCSL(4).
In June 2014, Lokuarachchi was banned from Cricket for 18 months by the gladesh Premiere League Anti Corruption Tribunal for failing to report an approach by a bookie.
