Full Name

Dhananjaya Maduranga de Silva

Born

September 06, 1991, Colombo

Age

31y 202d

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

Career Averages
Batting & Fielding
FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Test47857300617338.53529556.7791136122560
ODI6561813939126.28177878.34081449310
T20I3635365966*20.59576114.40035611150
FC11320115722617338.841174761.512032838901280
List A12011512312113230.30377082.7851435027550
T20101939200081*23.801587126.0201119452450
Bowling
FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Test476933391879343/255/5155.263.3798.2000
ODI655516701411373/323/3238.135.0645.1000
T20I3621253282132/222/2221.696.6819.4000
FC113147789343171407/5912/10930.833.2856.3351
List A1209728972375724/274/2732.984.9140.2100
T2010161824978372/92/926.437.1222.2000
Dhananjaya Maduranga de Silva
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Recent Matches - Player
MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Sri Lanka vs New Zealand0 & 981/7517-Mar-2023WellingtonTest # 2500
Sri Lanka vs New Zealand46 & 47*0/3409-Mar-2023ChristchurchTest # 2498
Sri Lanka vs NZ XI0*--04-Mar-2023LincolnOTHER
Jaffna vs Kandy12 & 82*0/3 & 1/2609-Feb-2023Colombo (SSC)FC
Jaffna vs Colombo19 & 231/2502-Feb-2023PallekeleFC
Photos
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
Dhananjaya de Silva slashes the ball behind square