Dasun Shanaka

Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka, or Dasun Shanaka (born 9 September 1991), is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays for all formats.[1] Known as a pinch hitter, Shanaka generally plays as a batting all rounder with handy right-arm medium fast bowling. In 2019, he captained the Twenty20 International side against Pakistan, and Sri Lanka whitewashed Pakistan 3-0 in the series under his captaincy.[2] Shanaka is a past student of St. Peter's College, Negombo and Maris Stella College, Negombo.

Dasun Shanaka
Personal information
Full nameMadagamagamage Dasun Shanaka
Born (1991-09-09) 9 September 1991
Negombo, Sri Lanka
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleAll-rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 134)19 May 2016 v England
Last Test14 January 2021 v England
ODI debut (cap 171)16 June 2016 v Ireland
Last ODI2 October 2019 v Pakistan
T20I debut (cap 58)1 August 2015 v Pakistan
Last T20I6 March 2020 v West Indies
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2011–presentSinhalese Sports Club
2016Rangpur Riders
2017Sylhet Sixers
2018St Lucia Stars
2018–presentChittagong Vikings
2020Dambulla Viiking
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I
Matches 6 22 40
Runs scored 140 468 483
Batting average 14.00 26.00 15.58
100s/50s 0/1 0/3 0/1
Top score 66* 68 54
Balls bowled 762 282 175
Wickets 13 10 11
Bowling average 33.15 27.40 19.81
5 wickets in innings 0 1 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 3/46 5/43 3/16
Catches/stumpings 4/0 3/0 8/0
Source: Cricinfo, 18 January 2021

Domestic and T20 franchise career

In May 2016, Shanaka scored a century against Leicestershire County Cricket Club in a first-class match on the tour of England.[3][4]

In March 2018, he was named the vice-captain of Galle's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament.[5][6] The following month, he was also named as the vice-captain of Galle's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.[7]

On 3 June 2018, he was selected to play for the Montreal Tigers in the players' draft for the inaugural edition of the Global T20 Canada tournament.[8][9] In August 2018, he was named in Kandy's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League.[10] He was the leading run-scorer for Kandy in the tournament, with 312 runs in six matches, including a century in Kandy's final match.[11][12]

In October 2018, he was named in the squad for the Chittagong Vikings team, following the draft for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League.[13] In March 2019, he was named in Dambulla's squad for the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.[14] In November 2019, he was selected to play for the Cumilla Warriors in the 2019–20 Bangladesh Premier League.[15]

In October 2020, he was drafted by the Dambulla Viiking for the inaugural edition of the Lanka Premier League.[16]

International career

Debut years

He was named in Sri Lanka's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Pakistan in July 2015.[17] He made his T20I debut on 1 August 2015 as the 58th T20I cap for Sri Lanka.[18]

He made his Test debut for Sri Lanka on 19 May 2016 against England on the same tour.[19] He was the 134th Test player for Sri Lanka.[20] He took his first Test wicket by dismissing England captain Alastair Cook. 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.[19]

He made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Ireland on 16 June 2016. Shanaka scored 42 runs from 19 balls. Bowling, he took five wickets for 42 runs.[21] He became the twelfth player, and third Sri Lankan, to take five wickets on debut in an ODI.[22] After the two matches against Ireland, he was named as the player of the series.[23]

All round ability

He was re-called for the one-off T20I against India in September 2017.[24] Shanaka was out LBW for nought in the match and did not bowl. India won the match by 8 wickets.

During the second Test against India, Shanaka was found guilty for changing the condition. The incident was caught on cameras and informed to the match referee David Boon by on field umpires as well as third umpire. By found guilty, Shanaka was fined with 75% of his match fee and handed three demerit points.[25]

In May 2018, he was one of 33 cricketers to be awarded a national contract by Sri Lanka Cricket ahead of the 2018–19 season.[26][27]

Shanaka was included to the ODI squad for South Africa series in 2018. However, he did not included to the playing Xi in the first three matches. In the fourth ODI against South Africa on 8 August 2018 at Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Shanka top-scored with 65 off 34 balls, which marked his maiden ODI fifty. The innings witnessed 4 fours and 5 huge sixes with a strike rate of 191.[28] Shanka along with Thisara Perera breakneck seventh-wicket stand of 109 runs to lift Sri Lanka to pass 300+ in a rain hit day. During the fielding, Shanaka took the wicket of Reeza Hendricks and involved the run out of JP Duminy.[29] Sri Lanka finally won the match by 3 runs, by the D/L method, which was their first win against South Africa after 11 consecutive losses. For his all round match winning performances, Shanaka was adjudged man of the match.

T20I captaincy

In September 2019, Shanaka was named as the captain of Sri Lanka's T20I squad for the series against Pakistan in Pakistan.[30] Under his captaincy, Sri Lanka won the first T20I by 64 runs. This was Sri Lanka's first T20I win against Pakistan in six years.[31] Shanaka lead Sri Lanka in winning all three T20Is against Pakistan, which was Sri Lanka's first T20I series whitewash, and Pakistan's first whitewash loss.[32] In the meantime, he became only the third captain to win their first three T20I against Pakistan along with MS Dhoni and Michael Clarke.[2]

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