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Dhananjaya de Silva stats

Data through 7 September 2026Last updated 7 September 2026

Coverage: matches in the Cricsheet data from 30 July 2015 to 7 September 2026. Older matches, and matches against Afghanistan, are not included, so totals can be lower than official career figures.

Between 2015 and 2026, Dhananjaya de Silva appears in 68 Tests, 82 ODIs, 44 T20Is for Sri Lanka in the Cricsheet data. In Tests Dhananjaya de Silva scored 4,431 runs in 122 innings (average 39.21, strike rate 58.0), including 13 hundreds and 20 fifties. With the ball, the best return was 43 wickets in Tests at an average of 53.93 and an economy rate of 3.34. Against Pakistan in Tests, Dhananjaya de Silva averaged 58.10 over 11 innings.

International matches

194

Tests 68 · ODIs 82 · T20Is 44

International runs

6,986

13 hundreds

International wickets

100

0 five-wicket hauls

T20 league & domestic matches

721 runs

Best batting average (Test)

39.21

122 innings

Highest score

204

First-class

Teams played for

Sri Lanka 2015–2026 · 194Colombo Cricket Club 2024–2026 · 25Jaffna Kings 2022–2024 · 11Dambulla Aura 2023 · 10Colombo Stars 2021 · 9Jaffna Stallions 2020 · 7Abu Dhabi Knight Riders 2023 · 5

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Dhananjaya de Silva batting record by format

Batting by format
Format	M	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
Test	68	122	9	4,431	173	39.21	7,637	58.0	13	20	10	534	38
ODI	82	76	8	1,769	93	26.01	2,269	78.0	0	9	3	177	15
T20I	44	44	3	786	62	19.17	695	113.1	0	2	2	68	15
T20 (leagues & domestic)	45	40	5	721	65	20.60	576	125.2	0	3	1	65	22
First-class	11	15	3	841	204	70.08	1,164	72.3	2	4	0	84	11
List A	11	11	3	363	130*	45.38	356	102.0	1	2	1	30	12

Runs per year

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Dhananjaya de Silva: runs per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Runs
2015	45
2016	959
2017	341
2018	756
2019	702
2020	457
2021	1,062
2022	675
2023	1,301
2024	850
2025	890
2026	873

Year-by-year batting (44 rows)

Batting by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
2015	T20I	2	45	22.50	95.7	31	0	0
2016	ODI	9	270	33.75	82.8	78	0	3
2016	T20I	2	74	37.00	127.6	62	0	1
2016	Test	12	615	55.91	54.6	129	2	2
2017	ODI	6	62	10.33	50.8	28	0	0
2017	T20I	3	48	16.00	98.0	27	0	0
2017	Test	10	231	25.67	54.6	119	1	0
2018	ODI	8	199	33.17	89.2	84	0	1
2018	T20I	2	48	24.00	106.7	31	0	0
2018	Test	19	509	26.79	59.3	173	1	3
2019	ODI	13	257	25.70	72.0	39	0	0
2019	T20I	4	42	10.50	79.2	14	0	0
2019	Test	14	403	33.58	57.2	109	2	0
2020	ODI	3	81	27.00	100.0	51	0	1
2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	118	23.60	153.2	61	0	1
2020	T20I	2	74	37.00	151.0	57	0	1
2020	Test	3	184	92.00	65.2	79	0	2
2021	ODI	11	304	30.40	72.4	91	0	2
2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	8	147	21.00	114.8	40	0	0
2021	T20I	7	81	16.20	102.5	40	0	0
2021	Test	10	530	58.89	55.0	166	2	2
2022	ODI	4	126	31.50	92.6	60	0	1
2022	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	58	14.50	116.0	29	0	0
2022	T20I	9	148	16.44	115.6	33	0	0
2022	Test	13	343	26.38	55.8	109	1	1
2023	ODI	19	411	22.83	80.9	93	0	1
2023	T20 (leagues & domestic)	14	299	27.18	126.7	65	0	2
2023	T20I	6	105	17.50	147.9	37	0	0
2023	Test	10	486	60.75	61.2	122	1	3
2024	First-class	1	15	15.00	51.7	15	0	0
2024	List A	1	0	0.00	0.0	0	0	0
2024	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	47	9.40	127.0	18	0	0
2024	T20I	4	78	26.00	98.7	34	0	0
2024	Test	16	710	44.38	63.7	108	2	6
2025	First-class	8	442	73.67	76.9	117	1	2
2025	List A	7	276	46.00	103.8	130	1	1
2025	T20 (leagues & domestic)	2	50	25.00	116.3	42	0	0
2025	Test	7	122	20.33	58.9	39	0	0
2026	First-class	6	384	76.80	68.6	204	1	2
2026	List A	3	87	87.00	97.8	58	0	1
2026	ODI	3	59	19.67	61.5	40	0	0
2026	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	2	2.00	40.0	2	0	0
2026	T20I	3	43	14.33	116.2	22	0	0
2026	Test	8	298	37.25	54.3	120	1	1

Dhananjaya de Silva bowling record by format

Bowling by format
Format	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	Mdns
Test	98	4,161	2,319	43	3/25	5/51	53.93	3.34	96.8	0	84
ODI	68	2,048	1,766	41	3/32	–	43.07	5.17	50.0	0	1
T20I	26	304	344	16	2/22	–	21.50	6.79	19.0	0	0
T20 (leagues & domestic)	31	512	611	23	4/6	–	26.57	7.16	22.3	1	2
First-class	15	869	483	17	4/71	6/105	28.41	3.33	51.1	2	21
List A	11	385	304	11	3/37	–	27.64	4.74	35.0	0	3

Wickets per year

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Dhananjaya de Silva: wickets per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Wickets
2015	0
2016	8
2017	3
2018	12
2019	22
2020	6
2021	13
2022	20
2023	17
2024	19
2025	16
2026	15

Year-by-year bowling (42 rows)

Bowling by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
2016	ODI	5	3	33.67	5.05	2/35
2016	T20I	2	0	–	6.67	0/8
2016	Test	10	5	38.00	3.80	2/91
2017	ODI	6	1	104.00	5.47	1/42
2017	T20I	1	1	3.00	3.00	1/3
2017	Test	8	1	217.00	3.88	1/31
2018	ODI	8	6	32.50	5.42	2/38
2018	T20I	2	3	14.67	7.33	2/22
2018	Test	12	3	79.00	3.24	2/54
2019	ODI	13	12	38.58	5.18	3/32
2019	T20I	2	1	33.00	6.60	1/28
2019	Test	11	9	31.33	3.10	3/25
2020	ODI	2	0	–	3.62	0/13
2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	3	28.67	6.97	1/23
2020	T20I	2	0	–	9.33	0/13
2020	Test	4	3	55.00	2.95	3/71
2021	ODI	9	6	39.00	5.20	3/45
2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	3	31.00	7.15	2/18
2021	T20I	3	0	–	7.17	0/12
2021	Test	11	4	93.50	3.31	1/11
2022	ODI	4	5	22.80	4.56	2/26
2022	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	1	67.00	9.57	1/40
2022	T20I	7	6	16.00	5.94	2/24
2022	Test	11	8	38.12	3.41	2/32
2023	ODI	18	4	105.50	5.34	1/9
2023	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	11	23.27	7.31	4/6
2023	T20I	2	1	37.00	13.88	1/6
2023	Test	9	1	178.00	3.02	1/75
2024	First-class	2	6	17.50	3.82	4/71
2024	List A	1	1	4.00	2.00	1/4
2024	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	3	29.67	6.36	2/25
2024	T20I	3	3	4.67	3.65	1/1
2024	Test	12	6	40.67	3.64	2/18
2025	First-class	6	6	36.33	3.52	4/72
2025	List A	7	5	36.60	4.46	2/24
2025	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	2	10.00	5.00	2/20
2025	Test	5	3	26.67	3.20	2/13
2026	First-class	7	5	32.00	2.89	2/29
2026	List A	3	5	23.40	5.53	3/37
2026	ODI	3	4	26.00	5.20	2/37
2026	T20I	2	1	26.00	6.50	1/4
2026	Test	5	0	–	3.36	0/3

Dhananjaya de Silva against each team

vs South Africa vs Australia vs Bangladesh vs India vs England vs New Zealand vs West Indies vs Pakistan

Batting against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
Bangladesh	Test	18	879	51.71	63.6	173	4	2
Pakistan	Test	11	581	58.10	61.3	122	3	2
West Indies	Test	15	548	39.14	56.0	155	2	2
South Africa	Test	18	504	29.65	60.6	79	0	4
Australia	Test	16	484	32.27	55.2	129	1	1
New Zealand	Test	13	416	37.82	58.2	109	1	1
England	Test	11	372	33.82	59.1	74	0	5
Zimbabwe	Test	6	330	55.00	52.2	127	1	2
India	Test	12	293	26.64	47.9	119	1	1
South Africa	ODI	17	395	23.24	71.3	84	0	1
Australia	ODI	11	280	28.00	78.0	76	0	2
England	ODI	10	258	32.25	73.9	91	0	1
India	ODI	8	169	24.14	74.8	47	0	0
West Indies	ODI	6	148	29.60	96.1	58	0	2
Bangladesh	ODI	8	134	19.14	74.4	55	0	1
Netherlands	ODI	3	127	42.33	81.4	93	0	1
New Zealand	ODI	4	72	18.00	82.8	36	0	0
Pakistan	ODI	3	31	10.33	66.0	25	0	0
India	T20I	8	179	29.83	128.8	57	0	1
South Africa	T20I	10	117	11.70	92.1	31	0	0
Pakistan	T20I	6	114	19.00	108.6	31	0	0
Australia	T20I	3	100	33.33	123.5	62	0	1
New Zealand	T20I	5	82	16.40	136.7	37	0	0
England	T20I	4	40	10.00	87.0	17	0	0
B-Love Kandy	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	111	37.00	132.1	61	0	1
Galle Gladiators	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	93	31.00	131.0	33	0	0
Dambulla Giants	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	69	23.00	127.8	33	0	0
Galle Titans	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	51	51.00	127.5	43	0	0
Colombo Strikers	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	32	16.00	133.3	15	0	0
Jaffna Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	16	5.33	64.0	11	0	0
Kandy Falcons	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	15	5.00	55.6	10	0	0
Burgher Recreation Club	First-class	3	314	104.67	71.2	204	1	1

Bowling against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
New Zealand	Test	9	10	30.90	3.36	3/25
South Africa	Test	13	7	44.57	4.11	3/36
Bangladesh	Test	18	7	65.14	3.43	2/13
India	Test	9	5	64.60	4.35	2/32
Australia	Test	10	4	47.50	2.79	1/8
Zimbabwe	Test	7	4	47.25	3.05	3/71
Pakistan	Test	9	2	76.50	2.89	1/15
England	Test	8	2	71.00	3.45	2/18
West Indies	Test	11	2	104.00	2.77	1/11
Ireland	Test	4	0	–	1.95	0/3
Australia	ODI	10	10	26.40	4.80	2/26
South Africa	ODI	17	9	48.89	5.50	3/41
England	ODI	10	9	26.00	4.98	3/32
Bangladesh	ODI	9	8	35.12	4.61	3/45
India	ODI	6	4	45.00	5.62	2/49
Pakistan	ODI	3	0	–	6.09	0/3
West Indies	ODI	3	0	–	4.33	0/13
South Africa	T20I	6	4	22.00	6.29	2/22
Pakistan	T20I	4	2	24.00	5.33	1/4
India	T20I	4	1	47.00	7.83	1/6
Australia	T20I	3	1	38.00	7.35	1/18
B-Love Kandy	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	5	7.60	4.75	4/6
Galle Gladiators	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	4	22.75	6.50	2/18
Galle Titans	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	3	27.00	8.10	1/14
Galle Marvels	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	1	41.00	5.86	1/16
Burgher Recreation Club	First-class	3	0	–	2.67	0/5

Top grounds (batting)

Most runs by ground
Ground	Inns	Runs	Avg	HS
Galle International Stadium	34	1123	37.43	155
R Premadasa Stadium	49	987	23.50	64
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	27	934	35.92	204
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	16	592	39.47	129
Colombo Cricket Club Ground	11	468	58.50	130
Harare Sports Club	9	415	51.88	127
P Sara Oval	8	292	41.71	109
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium	7	289	41.29	120
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	5	283	56.60	173
Queens Sports Club	6	221	44.20	93

Top grounds (bowling)

Most wickets by ground
Ground	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ
R Premadasa Stadium	42	29	32.34	5.45
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	25	15	41.33	4.28
P Sara Oval	8	11	21.64	3.80
Galle International Stadium	29	11	40.00	2.95
St George's Park	8	10	24.00	4.14
Colombo Cricket Club Ground	10	10	32.30	3.94
Colts Cricket Club Ground	4	5	26.80	3.02
Kennington Oval	3	4	17.00	4.86
Dubai International Cricket Stadium	4	4	21.25	5.67
Harare Sports Club	7	4	47.25	3.05

Batting and bowling by phase (limited overs)

T20 phases: overs 1–6, 7–15, 16–20. ODI phases: overs 1–10, 11–40, 41–50.
Format	Phase	Runs	Balls	SR	Outs	Bowl balls	Wkts	Econ
T20	Powerplay	534	455	117.4	19	330	13	6.80
T20	Middle	740	667	110.9	39	412	23	7.22
T20	Death	233	149	156.4	18	74	3	6.89
ODI	Powerplay	246	296	83.1	6	282	6	4.96
ODI	Middle	1249	1715	72.8	48	1670	29	5.20
ODI	Death	274	258	106.2	14	96	6	5.38

How Dhananjaya de Silva was dismissed

Caught166 (60%)
Bowled49 (18%)
Lbw33 (12%)
Stumped14 (5%)
Caught and bowled8 (3%)
Run out5 (2%)
Hit wicket2 (1%)

How Dhananjaya de Silva took wickets

Caught97
Bowled21
Lbw17
Caught and bowled11
Stumped5

Last 20 innings

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Dhananjaya de Silva: runs in the last 20 innings
Innings	Runs
27 Jan 2026	9
30 Jan 2026	11
6 Mar 2026	36
6 Mar 2026	16
13 Mar 2026	204
20 Mar 2026	63
20 Mar 2026	1
28 Mar 2026	64
25 Jun 2026	120
25 Jun 2026	0
3 Jul 2026	33
3 Jul 2026	34
15 Aug 2026	21
15 Aug 2026	59
23 Aug 2026	8
23 Aug 2026	23
31 Aug 2026	26
3 Sep 2026	3
5 Sep 2026	2
7 Sep 2026	58

Most recent batting innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Score	Balls	How out	Ground
7 Sep 2026	List A	Sinhalese Sports Club	58	62	caught	Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground
5 Sep 2026	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club	2	5	caught	Colts Cricket Club Ground
3 Sep 2026	List A	Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club	3*	4	not out	P Sara Oval
31 Aug 2026	List A	Panadura Sports Club	26*	23	not out	Panadura Esplanade
23 Aug 2026	Test	India	23	44	caught	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground
23 Aug 2026	Test	India	8	14	caught	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground
15 Aug 2026	Test	India	59	151	caught	Galle International Stadium
15 Aug 2026	Test	India	21	41	caught	Galle International Stadium
3 Jul 2026	Test	West Indies	34	34	caught	Sir Vivian Richards Stadium
3 Jul 2026	Test	West Indies	33	90	caught	Sir Vivian Richards Stadium
25 Jun 2026	Test	West Indies	0	7	lbw	Sir Vivian Richards Stadium
25 Jun 2026	Test	West Indies	120	168	caught	Sir Vivian Richards Stadium
28 Mar 2026	First-class	Moors Sports Club	64	110	caught and bowled	R Premadasa Stadium
20 Mar 2026	First-class	Ace Capital Cricket Club	1	3	caught	Colts Cricket Club Ground
20 Mar 2026	First-class	Ace Capital Cricket Club	63	101	caught	Colts Cricket Club Ground
13 Mar 2026	First-class	Burgher Recreation Club	204	291	bowled	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
6 Mar 2026	First-class	Nondescripts Cricket Club	16*	19	not out	Colts Cricket Club Ground
6 Mar 2026	First-class	Nondescripts Cricket Club	36	36	caught	Colts Cricket Club Ground
30 Jan 2026	T20I	England	11	12	caught	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
27 Jan 2026	ODI	England	9	16	caught	R Premadasa Stadium

Last 20 bowling innings

Most recent bowling innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Figures	Overs	Mdns	Ground
7 Sep 2026	List A	Sinhalese Sports Club	0/44	6	0	Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground
3 Sep 2026	List A	Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club	3/37	7.1	0	P Sara Oval
31 Aug 2026	List A	Panadura Sports Club	2/36	8	1	Panadura Esplanade
23 Aug 2026	Test	India	0/8	2	0	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground
15 Aug 2026	Test	India	0/4	1	0	Galle International Stadium
15 Aug 2026	Test	India	0/15	4	0	Galle International Stadium
3 Jul 2026	Test	West Indies	0/3	2	1	Sir Vivian Richards Stadium
25 Jun 2026	Test	West Indies	0/17	5	0	Sir Vivian Richards Stadium
28 Mar 2026	First-class	Moors Sports Club	0/12	3	0	R Premadasa Stadium
20 Mar 2026	First-class	Ace Capital Cricket Club	1/12	8	3	Colts Cricket Club Ground
20 Mar 2026	First-class	Ace Capital Cricket Club	2/29	10.2	0	Colts Cricket Club Ground
13 Mar 2026	First-class	Burgher Recreation Club	0/9	3	0	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
13 Mar 2026	First-class	Burgher Recreation Club	0/5	5	3	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
6 Mar 2026	First-class	Nondescripts Cricket Club	1/48	14	0	Colts Cricket Club Ground
6 Mar 2026	First-class	Nondescripts Cricket Club	1/45	12	1	Colts Cricket Club Ground
27 Jan 2026	ODI	England	1/45	5	0	R Premadasa Stadium
24 Jan 2026	ODI	England	2/37	7	0	R Premadasa Stadium
22 Jan 2026	ODI	England	1/22	8	0	R Premadasa Stadium
11 Jan 2026	T20I	Pakistan	0/22	2	0	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium
7 Jan 2026	T20I	Pakistan	1/4	2	0	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium

Batter vs bowler matchups

Bowlers Dhananjaya de Silva faced most

Frequently asked questions

How many runs has Dhananjaya de Silva scored in Tests?

4,431 runs in 122 innings (68 matches) at an average of 39.21 and a strike rate of 58.0, in the data from 2016 to 2026.

How many runs has Dhananjaya de Silva scored in ODIs?

1,769 runs in 76 innings (82 matches) at an average of 26.01 and a strike rate of 78.0, in the data from 2016 to 2026.

How many runs has Dhananjaya de Silva scored in T20Is?

786 runs in 44 innings (44 matches) at an average of 19.17 and a strike rate of 113.1, in the data from 2015 to 2026.

What is Dhananjaya de Silva's highest score?

204 in first-class, the highest score in the data.

How many wickets has Dhananjaya de Silva taken in Tests?

43 wickets in 98 innings at an average of 53.93, economy 3.34, best figures 3/25.

Source: computed by CricketWise from Cricsheet ball-by-ball data (ODC-BY). Career totals cover only matches in the Cricsheet data. Definitions: methodology.