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.

Lanka de Silva
ලංකා ද සිල්වා
Personal information
Born (1975-07-29) 29 July 1975
Kurunegala
BattingRight-hand bat
BowlingRight-arm offbreak
RoleWicket-keeper
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 70)19 November 1997 v India
Last Test3 December 1997 v India
ODI debut (cap 90)18 July 1997 v India
Last ODI8 November 1997 v South Africa
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI
Matches 3 11
Runs scored 36 161
Batting average 18.00 53.66
100s/50s -/- -/2
Top score 20* 57
Balls bowled - -
Wickets - -
Bowling average - -
5 wickets in innings - -
10 wickets in match - n/a
Best bowling - -
Catches/stumpings 1/- 9/6
Source: Cricinfo, 9 February 2006

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


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