Full Name

Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka

Born

September 09, 1991, Negombo

Age

31y 194d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium

Playing Role

Allrounder

Height

6ft

Education

St. Peters College - Negombo, Maristella College

An explosive middle-order batsman, and steady right-arm seam bowler, Dasun Shanaka worked his way into Sri Lanka's T20 side through several seasons of good performances for Sinhalese Sports Club. Born and educated in Negombo, Shanaka made his T20 international debut against Pakistan in August 2015, but it wasn't until the following domestic season that he achieved wide acclaim. Batting at No. 4 in an AIA Premier T20 match against Saracens Sports Club, Shanaka struck a Sri Lankan record 16 sixes in an innings worth 123 from 46 balls. That wasn't even his biggest T20 score of the last week. He had hit 131 off 48 balls against Galle Cricket Club one week earlier.

But it was with the ball that Shanaka first made his mark on the international stage. He took 3 for 16 on a Pune greentop, against India, having only taken two domestic T20 wickets before then. He played bright cameos in Sri Lanka's 2016 World T20 campaign, and in April he was picked in the Test squad - for Sri Lanka's tour of England - for the first time, largely on his potential, rather than his first-class record.
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Career Averages
Batting & Fielding
FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Test612214066*14.0027650.72019740
ODI484441067108*26.67112794.6723883690
T20I858018132874*21.411090121.83059368290
FC659410333713039.72490068.10918309113450
List A138115192563108*26.69276592.6927189102490
T20180168373701131*28.252605142.07315263217590
Bowling
FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Test68762431133/465/11233.153.3958.6000
ODI4827570573155/435/4338.206.0338.0010
T20I8539379508233/163/1622.088.0416.4000
FC657335852213646/698/8434.573.7056.0010
List A1387819631765625/435/4328.465.3931.6010
T201809110791581573/63/627.738.7918.9000
Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka
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Test
ODI
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Recent Matches - Player
MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Colombo vs Galle483/3217-Mar-2023DambullaList A
Colombo vs Dambulla351/4011-Mar-2023DambullaList A
Zalmi vs United11--23-Feb-2023KarachiT20
Zalmi vs Gladiators16*0/2220-Feb-2023KarachiT20
Riders vs Strikers102/4514-Feb-2023MirpurT20
Photos
Dasun Shanaka and Sikandar Raza were inseparable
Kuldeep Yadav produced a beauty to get rid of Dasun Shanaka
Dasun Shanaka gets bowled
Dasun Shanaka congratulates Dhananjaya de Silva for dismissing Axar Patel
Rohit Sharma congratulates Dasun Shanaka for his century
Dasun Shanaka cracked his second ODI century