Chaturanga de Silva

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Chaturanga de Silva
Personal information
Full name
Pinanduwage Chathuranaga de silva
Born (1990-01-17) 17 January 1990 (age 34)
Galle, Sri Lanka
Height5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox
Role Batsman
Relations Wanindu Hasaranga, (brother)
International information
National side
ODI debut(cap  159)25 February 2014 v  Pakistan
Last ODI1 February 2017 v  South Africa
ODI shirt no.50
T20I debut(cap  73)29 October 2017 v  Pakistan
Last T20I22 December 2017 v  India
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
Representing Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka
Men's Cricket
Asian Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Incheon Team

Pinnaduwage Chaturanga de Silva (born 17 January 1990), or Chaturanga de Silva, is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer who plays limited over cricket. Chathuranga de Silva was educated at St. Aloysius College, Galle, where he started his cricket career. He is primarily a left-handed batsman but bowls handy slow left-arm orthodox. He has represented the Sri Lanka national cricket team in limited over international matches. He is the elder brother of Sri Lankan All-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva.

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Personal life

[1] His younger brother Wanindu Hasaranga is also a limited overs cricketer, who debuted on 2 July 2017 against Zimbabwe. [2]

Domestic career

In March 2018, he was named in Galle's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament. [3] [4] The following month, he was also named in Galle's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. [5]

In August 2018, he was named in Colombo's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League. [6] In February 2019, Sri Lanka Cricket named him as the Player of the Tournament of the 2017–18 SLC Twenty20 Tournament. [7] In March 2019, he was named in Kandy's squad for the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. [8] In October 2020, he was drafted by the Jaffna Stallions for the inaugural edition of the Lanka Premier League. [9] In August 2021, he was named in the SLC Greys team for the 2021 SLC Invitational T20 League tournament. [10] In November 2021, he was selected to play for the Jaffna Kings following the players' draft for the 2021 Lanka Premier League. [11] In July 2022, he was signed by the Dambulla Giants for the third edition of the Lanka Premier League. [12]

International career

De Silva was first selected in the Sri Lankan squad for the series against South Africa. He made his ODI debut for Sri Lanka against Pakistan in the Asia Cup on 25 February 2014. In the match, he took four wickets in a winning course. Then in the next match against Bangladesh, he scored 44 runs. [13]

He was named in Sri Lanka's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Pakistan in July 2015, but did not play any match. [14] In October 2017, he was named in Sri Lanka's T20I squad for their series against Pakistan. [15] He made his T20I debut for Sri Lanka against Pakistan on 29 October 2017. [16]

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References

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