
Attaya Dhananjaya de Silva
Occupations Cricketer, Sri Lankan Cricketer full name Dhananjaya Maduranga de Silva
- Born: Sept. 6, 1991, in Hambantota, Sri Lanka 17.
- Height: 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
- Batting Style: Right-handed 13
- Bowling Style: Right-arm off-break 13.
- Role: Batting all-rounder 13.
- Career Highlights
Dhananjaya de Silva International Debuts:
- Test: 26 July 2016 vs Australia 17.
- ODI: 16 June 2016 vs Ireland 17.
- T20I : July 30, 2015 v Pakistan 17.
Dhananjaya de Silva Test Career:
In 61 Tests he has scored 4,011 runs, with 12 hundreds and 19 fifties and a top score of 173 39.
P Each batting performance is worthy of a mention: his score of 119* in Delhi (2017), a match-saving effort to make it the highest fourth-innings score by a visiting batsman in India 39.
He was the joint-equal fastest Sri Lankan to 1,000 Test runs (23 innings)
ODI and T20I Career:
In ODIs, he has made 1,865 runs from 90 matches with a highest score of 93 39.
His T20I record is of 847 runs in 45 matches with a strike rate of 115.87 39.
Dhananjaya de Silva Domestic Career:
Domestic teams Tamil Union container for franchise teams Jaffna Stallions, Colombo Stars, Khulna Tigers 17
As of January 2024, appointed Test captain of Sri Lanka, taking over from Dimuth Karunaratne .
- Sri Lanka Cricket Test Batsman of the Year 2016–17
- Player Of The Tournament, 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament
- Key to Sri Lanka’s 3-0 whitewash over Australia in 2016 where he made a century and fifty in the series.
In 2024, he scored twin crusaders against Bangladesh in a Test match, making it just the third case of dual players from a similar group scoring twin heaps in a Test .
Personal Life
Married to Sanduni Nisansala.
His father, Ranjan de Silva, was a politician who was sadly killed in 2018.
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