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Dhananjaya de Silva: Career, Stats & Personal Life

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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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