Matches (11)
IPL 2023 (2)
ENG v IRE (1)
Vitality Blast (4)
Charlotte Edwards (3)
ZIM-A v PAK-A (1)

Full Name

Dhananjaya Maduranga de Silva

Born

September 06, 1991, Colombo

Age

31y 264d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

Playing Role

Allrounder

Height

5ft 8in

Education

Debarawewa Central Hambantota, Mahanama College Colombo, Richmond College, Galle

A technically correct top-order batsman from the southern reaches of the island, Dhananjaya de Silva briefly caught the national selectors' eye in 2015, then went on to have a bumper domestic season that marked him out for more intensive national duty. De Silva had been picked on potential in Sri Lanka's mid-year T20s against Pakistan, in 2015, but didn't quite convince he was a T20 batsman, hitting 45 off 47 balls across two innings. What followed, though, was an emphatic blooming.

De Silva first topped the batting charts in the Super T20 Provincial Tournament in early 2016, hitting 234 runs at a strike rate of 133, in six innings. Months later, he was the star of Tamil Union's first victorious first-class campaign in 55 years, hitting 868 runs at 54.20, which featured a crucial fourth-innings 121 in the match that clinched his team the title. Incredibly, though usually employed as a part-time offspinner, de Silva was also his club's most successful bowler that season, claiming 32 wickets at 14.23.

Those numbers helped earn him his first call-up to Sri Lanka's Test squad - for the England tour in May and June 2016.
Andrew Fernando, May 2016

Dhananjaya de Silva Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Test49878303017338.35532856.8691136622630
ODI6662814069126.03179978.15081469310
T20I3938373166*20.88621117.71036116170
FC11520316725017338.771178061.542032843901350
List A12111612313413230.13379182.6651435227550
T20104969207281*23.811632126.9601119957470

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Test497334531916343/255/5156.353.32101.5000
ODI665516701411373/323/3238.135.0645.1000
T20I3922263313132/222/2224.077.1420.2000
FC115151800743541407/5912/10931.103.2657.1351
List A1219728972375724/274/2732.984.9140.2100
T20104628341009372/92/927.277.2522.5000
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Dhananjaya de Silva top scored for Sri Lanka with 37
Dhananjaya de Silva is dejected after missing out on a century
Kasun Rajitha  gives Dhananjaya de Silva a pat on the back
Dinesh Chandimal and Dhananjaya de Silva put up a 126-run stand
Dhananjaya de Silva plays the pull shot
Dhananjaya de Silva reaches fifty