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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 All-rounder, Shanaka is a right-arm medium fast bowler and an aggressive lower order batsman.
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.
Mathews was sacked as the captain of the Sri Lankan ODI and T20 team in September 2018 after a disastrous 2018 Asia Cup campaign where Sri Lanka crashed out of the tournament after losing both their group matches against Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Test captain Dinesh Chandimal was named as the replacement for Mathews to captain the limited ...
Kusal Mendis hit a patient 74 not out as Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by three wickets under the DLS method with six balls remaining on Sunday in the rain-hit second ODI. Sri Lanka took an ...
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.
N 3] He was appointed captain of the Sri Lanka team in March 2009, following the resignation of Mahela Jayawardene, [14] and the first of his seven Test centuries as captain came against Pakistan in July of the same year. [15] Sangakkara has the second-highest batting average—69.60 per innings—for a captain who scored a minimum of 1,500 ...
South Africa was building a defendable total against Sri Lanka as it reached 191-3 in its second innings and a lead of 221 runs on day three Saturday of the second test. Aiden Markram's 55 moved ...
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]