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Dhananjaya de Silva

Sri Lanka|Allrounder
Dhananjaya de Silva
INTL CAREER: 2015 - 2023
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Full Name

Dhananjaya Maduranga de Silva

Born

September 06, 1991, Colombo

Age

32y 91d

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
Tests51918330117339.77576657.24101339928640
ODIs90821018659325.90237378.5901018617410
T20Is3938373166*20.88621117.71036116170
FC12021117777717340.081260461.702137895991420
List A14513614359313229.45436582.3151639235650
T20s11410512226481*24.341781127.1101221464540

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests517635251948343/255/5157.293.31103.6000
ODIs907522501907443/323/3243.345.0851.1000
T20Is3922263313132/222/2224.077.1420.2000
FC120158838544831467/5912/10930.703.2057.4351
List A14511734772871794/274/2736.344.9544.0100
T20s1147210201224474/64/626.047.2021.7100
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Dhananjaya de Silva is stumped by Mushfiqur Rahim
Charith Asalanka celebrates his fifty with Dhananjaya de Silva watching along
Dhananjaya de Silva was mostly clueless against Rashid Khan
Dhananjaya de Silva walks back as Mitchell Starc celebrates
Dhananjaya de Silva turns back to see his leg stump uprooted
Dhananjaya de Silva scored 55 off 79 balls