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Dasun Shanaka

Dasun Shanaka
Personal information
Full name Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka
Born (1991-09-09) 9 September 1991 (age 25)
Negombo, Sri Lanka
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Role All-rounder
International information
National side
Only Test (cap 134) 19 May 2016 v England
ODI debut (cap 171) 16 June 2016 v Ireland
Last ODI 27 November 2016 v Zimbabwe
ODI shirt no. 07
T20I debut (cap 58) 1 August 2015 v Pakistan
Last T20I 22 February 2017 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years Team
2011–present Sinhalese Sports Club
Rangpur Riders
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I LA
Matches 1 9 12 45
Runs scored 4 119 112 466
Batting average 2.00 19.83 10.18 19.41
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 -/- 0/1
Top score 4 42 27 60*
Balls bowled 78 150 78 462
Wickets 3 6 6 12
Bowling average 15.33 24.00 16.66 29.08
5 wickets in innings 0 1 0 1
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 3/46 5/43 3/16 5/43
Catches/stumpings 0/– 2/– -/– 26/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 February 2017

Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka, or Dasun Shanaka (born 9 September 1991), is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays for all formats of the game for Sri Lanka in international level. Shanaka is a past student of St.Peter's College, Negombo and Maris Stella College, Negombo.

He was named in Sri Lanka's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Pakistan in July 2015. He made his T20I debut on 1 August 2015 as the 58th T20I cap for Sri Lanka.

In May 2016 Shanaka scored a century against Leicestershire County Cricket Club in a first-class match on the tour of England. He made his Test debut for Sri Lanka on 19 May 2016 against England on the same tour. He is the 134th Test player for Sri Lanka. He took his first Test wicket by dismissing England captain Alastair Cook. Though he took 3 for 46 runs, he only scored 4 runs in the both innings, and Sri Lanka lost the match by an innings and 88 runs.

He made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Ireland on 16 June 2016. Shanaka scored 42 runs from 19 balls. Bowling, he took five wickets for 42 runs. He became the twelfth player, and third Sri Lankan, to take five wickets on debut in an ODI.


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