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| Full name | Devapurage Shehan Madushanka Kumara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 May 1995 Wennappuwa, Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only ODI(cap 186) | 27 January 2018 v Bangladesh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut(cap 75) | 15 February 2018 v Bangladesh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 18 February 2018 v Bangladesh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I shirt no. | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2017–present | Tamil Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Devapurage Shehan Madushanka Kumara or commonly as Shehan Madushanka (born 10 May 1995) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer,who plays limited over internationals. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast medium bowler. He is a past pupil of Joseph Vaz College,Wennappuwa.
Madushanka made his first class debut against Zimbabwe Development XI. [1] He made his List A debut for Kilinochchi District in the 2016–17 Districts One Day Tournament on 15 March 2017. [2]
In March 2018,Madushanka was named in Dambulla's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament. [3] [4] The following month,he was also named in Dambulla's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. [5]
In August 2018,Madushanka was named in Dambulla's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League. [6] In March 2019,he was named in Galle's squad for the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. [7]
In January 2018,Madushanka was named in Sri Lanka's One Day International (ODI) squad for the 2017–18 Bangladesh Tri-Nation Series. [8] He made his ODI debut for Sri Lanka against Bangladesh in the finale match of the tri-series on 27 January 2018. [9] In the match,he became the fourth bowler and second Sri Lankan to take a hat-trick on debut in an ODI. [10]
In February 2018,Madushanka was named in Sri Lanka's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Bangladesh. [11] He made his T20I debut for Sri Lanka against Bangladesh on 15 February 2018. [12] In the second T20I,Madushanka took two early wickets in one over before sustaining a hamstring injury and was later ruled out from bowling. However,his injury didn’t affect Sri Lanka as they won the match along with the series. [13] However,due to his injury,he missed out the Nidahas Trophy in March 2018, [14] and several other bilateral series.
In May 2018,Madushanka was one of the 33 cricketers to be awarded a national contract by Sri Lanka Cricket ahead of the 2018–19 season. [15] [16] In December 2018,he was named in Sri Lanka team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. [17]
In May 2020,Madushanka was arrested for allegedly being in possession of heroin and then suspended from all forms of cricket. [18] [19]