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Dilshan Munaweera

Dilshan Munaweera
Personal information
Full name Eldeniya Medagedara Dilshan Yasika Munaweera
Born (1989-04-24) 24 April 1989 (age 27)
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm off break
Role Opening Batsman
International information
National side
T20I debut (cap 46) 18 September 2012 v Zimbabwe
Last T20I 6 April 2017 v Bangladesh
T20I shirt no. 24
Domestic team information
Years Team
2015–present Sylhet Super Stars
2016 Barisal Bulls
2014 Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club
Career statistics
Competition T20I FC List A T20
Matches 9 49 73 44
Runs scored 142 2,876 1,866 900
Batting average 17.75 34.23 26.28 23.07
100s/50s 0/0 6/19 2/11 0/3
Top score 44 153 142 77*
Balls bowled 1,532 1,570 319
Wickets 29 41 16
Bowling average 30.89 27.75 22.75
5 wickets in innings 1 1 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 5/47 5/40 3/32
Catches/stumpings 1/– 29/– 26/– 8/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 6 April 2017

Eldeniya Medagedara Dilshan Yasika Munaweera, commonly as Dilshan Munaweera (born 24 April 1989 in Colombo), is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays for Twenty20 Internationals. He is a member of 2012 ICC World Twenty20 for Sri Lanka, but dropped from the squad in 2013. He is a right-handed batsman, who can hit very hard and an occasional off break bowler.

Coming from a cricketing background Munaweera is the son of former first class cricketer Sudath Munaweera and Manjula Munaweera also played women's cricket. Munaweera got married in 2016 to Sanjeewani Palihakkara who is a fashion designer.

He was educated at Nalanda College Colombo and played cricket for the college first XI team from 2006 to 2008.

Munaweera has played first-class cricket for Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club. He has also played four Twenty20 Internationals for Sri Lanka.

He represented Sri Lanka at the 2008 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup and at the 2010 Asian Games.

Munaweera was picked up for the 3-T20Is against Australia in 2017 as a senior batsman, where many senior players were ruled out due to injuries. In his comeback match on 17 February 2017, Munaweera scored 29-ball 44 runs to provide a fast start to the chase. Sri Lanka finally won the match by 5 wickets.


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