Lanka de Silva
Sanjeewa Kumara Lanka De Silva (born July 29, 1975, Kurunegala), or Lanka De Silva, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 11 ODIs in 1997. He is also the current interim head coach of the Sri Lanka women's national cricket team.
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| Born | 29 July 1975 Kurunegala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-hand bat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm offbreak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 70) | 19 November 1997 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 3 December 1997 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 90) | 18 July 1997 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 8 November 1997 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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International career
He was right-hand wicket-keeper batsman. de Silva is only the tenth player in Sri Lankan cricket history to pass 10,000 runs in first-class cricket after starting his career in 1991/92 season for Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club.[1]
He played three Test for Sri Lanka all against Indian national cricket team when Sri Lanka toured to India in 1997 without any success and lost his place to Romesh Kaluwitharana.[2]
Coaching career
In 2015, de Silva was named as head coach of Sri Lanka national cricket team replacing Jeevantha Kulatunga along with physio Neha Karnik.[3][4][5] In August 2020, he was appointed as the interim head coach of the Sri Lanka women's cricket team replacing Harsha de Silva.[6][7]
References
- Unlucky nine for Colombo, again
- Sri Lanka cricket should be free of politics
- de Silva is new Sri Lanka Women's coach
- Two equally matched teams points to another draw
- SLC appoints new coach, physio to women’s team
- "Lanka de Silva named Sri Lanka women interim head coach | ESPNcricinfo.com". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- Aug 8, PTI /; 2020; Ist, 16:38. "Lanka de Silva appointed interim coach of Sri Lankan women's cricket team | Cricket News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2020-08-20.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)