Dasun Shanaka

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Dasun Shanaka
Personal information
Full name Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka
Born (1991-09-09) 9 September 1991 (age 32)
Negombo, Sri Lanka
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Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Role All-rounder
International information
National side
Only Test (cap 134) 19 May 2016 v England
T20I debut (cap 58) 1 August 2015 v Pakistan
Last T20I 28 March 2016 v South Africa
T20I shirt no. 7
Domestic team information
Years Team
2011–present Sinhalese Sports Club
Career statistics
Competition Test T20I FC LA
Matches 1 10 32 39
Runs scored 4 111 1,374 360
Batting average 2.00 12.33 38.16 18.94
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 4/6 0/1
Top score 4 27 127 60*
Balls bowled 78 54 1,219 348
Wickets 3 4 29 7
Bowling average 15.33 18.85 26.20 34.00
5 wickets in innings 0 0 1 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 3/46 3/16 6/69 2/21
Catches/stumpings 0/– 0/– 25/– 24/–
Source: CricketArchive, 27 May 2016

Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka, or Dasun Shanaka (born 9 September 1991), is a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer.[1] Shanaka is a past student of St.Peter's College, Negombo and Maris Stella College, Negombo. He was named in Sri Lanka's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Pakistan in July 2015.[2] He made his T20I debut on 1 August 2015 as the 58th T20I cap for Sri Lanka.[3]

In May 2016 Shanaka scored a century against Leicestershire County Cricket Club in a first-class match on the tour of England.[4][5] He made his Test debut for Sri Lanka on 19 May 2016 against England on the same tour.[6] He is the 134th Test player for Sri Lanka.[7] He took his first Test wicket by dismissing England captain Alastair Cook caught by wicketkeeper. Though he took 3 for 46 runs, he only scored 4 runs in the both innings, and Sri Lanka lost the match by an innings and 88 runs.[6]

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