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Dhananjaya de Silva Profile

Dhananjaya de Silva

Dhananjaya de Silva

All Rounder Sri Lanka

Right Handed & Off break 32 yrs.

A childhood scarred with hardships and perseverance, Dhananjaya de Silva saw much at an early age in his life. Like thousands of others in his country, de Silva’s village was one of the many which were affected by the horrific Tsunami wave in 2005. That in itself is a tragedy massive enough to rock your whole world apart, but this young st...

વ્યક્તિગત માહિતી
Born September, 06 1991
Birth Place Sri Lanka
Current age 32 yrs.
Role All Rounder
Batting style Right Handed
Bowling style Off break
બેટિંગના આંકડા
M I N/O R BF Avg S/R HS 200s 100s 50s 4x 6s
Test 53 95 8 3511 6077 40.35 57.77 173 0 12 13 420 31
ODI 90 82 10 1865 2373 25.90 78.59 93 0 0 10 186 17
T20I 43 42 4 792 679 20.84 116.64 66 0 0 3 67 17
FC 71 124 9 4717 7229 41.01 65.25 167 0 12 25 523 73
List A 64 63 5 1937 2214 33.39 87.48 132 0 5 7 228 21
T20 75 67 9 1533 1160 26.43 132.15 81 0 0 9 153 48
બોલિંગ આંકડા
M I O Balls Maiden R W AVG S/R E/R BEST BOWL 5 WKT 10 WKT
Test 53 79 600.3 3603 74 1981 34 58.26 105.97 3.29 3/25 0 0
ODI 90 75 375 2250 1 1907 44 43.34 51.13 5.08 3/32 0 0
T20I 43 24 45.4 274 0 316 15 21.06 18.26 6.91 2/22 0 0
FC 71 84 823.5 4943 122 2574 114 22.57 43.35 3.12 7/59 5 1
List A 64 50 240.3 1443 10 1121 41 27.34 35.19 4.66 4/27 0 0
T20 75 50 126.1 757 2 911 34 26.79 22.26 7.22 4/6 0 0

Profile

A childhood scarred with hardships and perseverance, Dhananjaya de Silva saw much at an early age in his life. Like thousands of others in his country, de Silva’s village was one of the many which were affected by the horrific Tsunami wave in 2005. That in itself is a tragedy massive enough to rock your whole world apart, but this young strong-headed boy at the time continued with his schooling and simultaneously, focused on his cricket as well.


Following the pattern of a majority of cricketers in recent times, he broke through the ranks with some good performances in age-group cricket. A call-up in the U-19 squad followed along with a T20I debut in 2015. He impressed for a brief period, then went on to have a good domestic season which made it impossible to not take notice of him. ODI and Test debuts came the following year and he kicked his international career off in some fashion.


In his first ever Test series, which was against Australia at home, he was the highest run-getter. A stark highlight in it was his 211-run partnership with Dinesh Chandimal in the third Test, which bailed his team out of a tough spot and eventually, Sri Lanka went on to win the match. He made a decent start in the 50-over format as well, having scored a couple of strong fifties in his first few games, but then experienced a dip in form. He’s been in-and-out of the side a lot, largely down to inconsistency, and found it difficult to impress whenever given a chance.


Dhananjaya is an aggressive batsman with flair and good technique. He has been experiencing a low phase in his career, but he still has time on his side and the Lankans would be wise to persist with him as he has the talent and can be a vital part going forward in this rebuilding phase of theirs.

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