Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka is a professional cricketer from Sri Lanka. He was born on September 9, 1991, and he has previously served as the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team for limited-over situations. A right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler, Shanaka is an all-rounder who also bowls with her right arm. During the year 2019, he served as the captain of the Twenty20 International (T20I) team that competed against Pakistan. During his tenure as captain, Sri Lanka won the series against Pakistan by a score of 3–0.
Shanaka took over as Sri Lanka’s Twenty20 International captain in February 2021, just before the team embarked on their tour to the West Indies. Lasith Malinga had previously held this position. Shanaka was also given the responsibility of leading Sri Lanka’s One Day International (ODI) team for the series that they were playing against India in July of 2021. In 2022, Shanaka led Sri Lanka to victory in the Asia Cup, which was the sixth championship that the squad had won. In March of 2018, he was selected as the vice-captain of the team that Galle would be competing in for the Super Four Provincial Tournament in 2017–2018.
In the month that followed, he was also given the responsibility of serving as the vice-captain of the Galle team that would compete in the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. After participating in the players’ draft for the first-ever Global T20 Canada event, he was chosen to play for the Montreal Tigers on June 3, 2018. This was the first time the competition had been held. The announcement that he will be a member of Kandy’s team for the 2018 SLC T20 League came in August of 2018. With a total of 312 runs scored over six matches, including a century in Kandy’s championship match, he was the player who led the team in terms of run-scoring throughout the tournament.
Following the selection for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League, he was selected for the Chittagong Vikings team in October of 2018. This was the first time that he had attended the draft. The Dambulla team that will compete in the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament decided to include him in their roster in March of this year. In November 2019, he was chosen to participate in the Bangladesh Premier League with the Cumilla Warriors for the 2019–20 season. The Dambulla Viiking selected him in the draft for the first-ever Lanka Premier League competition, which took place in October 2020.
Dasun Shanaka Biography
| Name | Dasun Shanaka |
| Full Name | Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka |
| Date of Birth | September 9, 1991 |
| Place of Birth | Negombo, Sri Lanka |
| Other Names | NA |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Father’s Name | NA |
| Mother’s Name | NA |
| Siblings | NA |
| Spouse | Chewanthi Perera |
| Marriage Date | 5 September 2020 |
| Children | NA |
| Role | Batting |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right arm Medium |
| ODI Debut | 16 June 2016 vs. Ireland |
| Test Debut | 19 May 2016 vs. England |
| Favourite Food | Indian Thali |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Blue |
| Retirement | Still Playing |
His appointment as captain of the SLC Greys squad for the 2021 SLC Invitational T20 League event took place in August of the same year. In addition to becoming the player of the series, Shanaka set the record for most runs scored in the competition. His selection to play for the Dambulla Giants in the 2021 Lanka Premier League came about as a result of the players’ draft that took place in November of that year. The Dambulla Giants decided to contract him in July 2022 so that he may participate in the third season of the Lanka Premier League.
Dasun achieved his fifteenth half-century in Twenty20 during a match against Mumbai Indians on February 5, 2023, which was part of the International League Twenty20. He was able to score 58 runs undefeated from 36 balls. In addition, he and Sikander Raza had a partnership that resulted in 122 runs and led Dubai Capitals to a win by seven wickets. The honor of the player of the match went to Dasun because of his knock. Mumbai Indians Emirates prevailed over Dubai Capitals in the Eliminator match that took place in Sharjah.
As of right now, they are still in the competition. After that, At the same time, Shanaka signed a contract to play with Rangpur Riders in the Bangladesh Premier League 2023. During the BPL 2023 season, he participated in two matches and got four wickets. The Pakistan Super League club Peshawar Zalmi was the recipient of his signature in February of 2023. It was in April of 2023 when the Gujarat Titans decided to recruit him as a substitute player for Kane Williamson in preparation for the 2023 Indian Premier League in India.
The one-day international team for the South Africa series in 2018 includes Shanaka as a member. However, he did not make it into the starting eleven for any of the tournament’s first three matches. In the fourth one-day international match against South Africa, which took place on August 8, 2018, at Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Shanka made the highest score of 65 runs off of 34 balls. This was his first fifty in an ODI match. In the course of the innings, there were four fours, five enormous sixes, and a strike rate of 191.
Batting & Fielding Stats
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Bowling
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Shanka and Thisara Perera put up a blazing seventh-wicket partnership of 109 runs, which helped Sri Lanka exceed the 300-run mark on a day when it was raining. During the fielding, Shanaka was responsible for the run out of JP Duminy and also took the wicket of Reeza Hendricks. After suffering 11 straight defeats against South Africa, Sri Lanka was ultimately victorious in the match by a score of three runs, using the D/L system. This victory marked their first victory over South Africa. The decision to award Shanaka the title of man of the match was based on his several match-winning efforts.
During the Twenty20 International series that Sri Lanka would be playing against Pakistan in Pakistan, Shanaka was selected to lead the team as captain in September 2019. He led Sri Lanka to victory in the inaugural Twenty20 International by a score of 64 runs. It had been six years since Sri Lanka had last won a Twenty20 International against Pakistan. The three Twenty20 Internationals that Shanaka led Sri Lanka to victory against Pakistan were Sri Lanka’s first T20I series whitewash and Pakistan’s first whitewash defeat. Shanaka was the captain of Sri Lanka’s team.
While everything was going on, he just became the third skipper in history to win their first three Twenty20 Internationals against Pakistan, joining the ranks of MS Dhoni and Michael Clarke. This time, Shanaka was given the responsibility of leading Sri Lanka in the Twenty20 International series against the West Indies, which took place in February of 2021. However, he was unable to go owing to visa concerns, hence he was unable to participate in the Twenty20 International matches.
