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Dhananjaya de Silva

Dhananjaya de Silva
Personal information
Full name Dhananjaya Maduranga de Silva
Born (1991-09-06) 6 September 1991 (age 25)
Hambantota, Sri Lanka
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm off break
Role Batting Allrounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 135) 26 July 2016 v Australia
Last Test 15 March 2017 v Bangladesh
ODI debut (cap 169) 16 June 2016 v Ireland
Last ODI 10 February 2017 v South Africa
ODI shirt no. 35
T20I debut (cap 53) 30 July 2015 v Pakistan
Last T20I 25 January 2017 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years Team
Badureliya SC
Kandurata Maroons
Ragama CC
Sri Lanka Under-19s
2016-present Tamil Union
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I LA
Matches 9 16 7 21
Runs scored 709 334 167 509
Batting average 41.70 25.69 23.85 25.45
100s/50s 2/2 -/3 -/1 1/1
Top score 129 78* 62 132
Balls bowled 438 234 24 379
Wickets 5 4 1 10
Bowling average 53.80 52.25 23.00 26.50
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 0
Best bowling 2/91 2/35 1/3 2/30
Catches/stumpings 7/- 7/- 2/– 7/-
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 19 March 2017

Dhananjaya Maduranga de Silva, or commonly Dhananjaya de Silva (Sinhalese: ධනංජය ද සිල්වා) (born 6 September 1991) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays all forms in international arena and for Tamil Union in domestic cricket.

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 30 July 2015. He scored 31 runs in his first international match, which Sri Lanka lost.

He made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Ireland on 16 June 2016, as the 169th ODI cap for Sri Lanka.

In July 2016 he was named in Sri Lanka's Test squad for their series against Australia. On 26 July 2016 he made his Test debut for Sri Lanka against Australia. He became the first player for Sri Lanka to get off the mark in a Test match by scoring a six and the fifth overall. He took his first Test wicket by dismissing Peter Nevill in the second innings of the match.

His maiden Test century came during the third Test of same Australian tour. Sri Lanka were in trouble at 5/26, when de Silva joined Dinesh Chandimal to secure the side. The two stood a century partnership and de Silva scored his maiden ton of his career. De Silva is the highest run scorer in the series with 325 runs with one century and one fifty of average 65.00. Sri Lanka whitewashed Australia for the first time.

After Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan retired from ODIs, de Silva was promoted to his slot of opening position. He scored 76 runs in the match. This score stands as the highest score by a Sri Lankan opening the batting for the first time, beating Saman Jayantha's score of 74 in 2004. His poor performances against South Africa made him unavailable for the opening slot, but played as a middle order batsman.


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