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Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka (born 9 September 1991) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer and former limited overs captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. [1] An bowling All-rounder, Shanaka is a right-arm medium fast bowler and an aggressive lower order batsman.
On 29 November 2017, Sri Lanka Cricket sacked Tharanga from captaincy and Thisara Perera was named as Sri Lanka's captain for the ODI and T20I matches against India. [39] Under Tharanga's captaincy, Sri Lanka suffered three 5-0 ODI whitewashes in the year 2017 against South Africa, India and Pakistan. [40] His win–loss ratio is 4/15. [41]
Just after Sri Lanka gained Test status in 1981 a team of rebel players toured apartheid South Africa under the banner "Arosa Sri Lanka" (the term "Arosa" being derived from the promoter's name). All players who toured Sri Lanka were banned from official cricket matches for life, thereby setting Sri Lanka's development back.
Sri Lanka brushed aside Bangladesh by 21 runs in its opening Asia Cup Super 4 game on Saturday to notch its 13th successive win in a one-day international. Sadeera Samarawickrama made an ...
Sri Lanka was awarded Test cricket status in 1981 by the International Cricket Conference. They played their first Test match against England at P. Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo, on 17 February 1982. Bandula Warnapura was the captain for Sri Lanka in that match, which England won by 7 wickets. [14]
Sri Lanka won the first one-day international by 45 runs — also by DLS — after rain disrupted that game at Dambulla. Sri Lanka beats New Zealand in 2nd ODI to win another home series Skip to ...
He scored 210 runs against Bangladesh in the third ODI in the India vs Bangladesh ODI Series and scored the fastest double century in ODI cricket, scoring 200 off of 126 balls. [31] On 18 January 2023, Shubman Gill became the second youngest player to score a double century. He was 23 years and 123 days old.
Sri Lanka captain Charith Asalanka won a third successive toss and elected to bat in the third and final one-day international against India on Wednesday. Sri Lanka leads the series 1-0. There was ...