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Milinda Siriwardene

Milinda Siriwardana
මිලින්ද සිරිවර්ධන
Personal information
Full name Tisse Appuhamilage Milinda Siriwardana
Born (1985-12-04) 4 December 1985 (age 31)
Nagoda, Sri Lanka
Nickname Miliya, Man with the golden arm
Batting Left-handed
Bowling Slow left-arm orthodox
Role Batting All rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 131) 14 October 2015 v West Indies
Last Test 27 May 2016 v England
ODI debut (cap 164) 11 July 2015 v Pakistan
Last ODI 3 September 2017 v India
ODI shirt no. 57
T20I debut (cap 55) 1 August 2015 v Pakistan
Last T20I 6 April 2017 v Bangladesh
Domestic team information
Years Team
Basnahira South
Chilaw Marians CC
Sebastianites C&AC
2014 Kandurata Maroons
Dhaka Division
Sri Lanka A
Victoria SC
2012 Ruhuna Royals
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I LA
Matches 5 21 22 117
Runs scored 298 489 275 2,170
Batting average 33.11 28.76 17.18 25.52
100s/50s 0/2 0/3 -/- -/10
Top score 68 66 42 97
Balls bowled 413 499 138 2,774
Wickets 11 9 8 80
Bowling average 23.36 49.66 25.75 25.57
5 wickets in innings 0 0 1
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0
Best bowling 3/25 2/27 2/17 6/40
Catches/stumpings 3/- 4/0 6/- 56/-
Source: ESPNricinfo, 3 September 2017

Tisse Appuhamilage Milinda Siriwardana, commonly as Milinda Siriwardana (born 4 December 1985) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays for limited over formats. He is a left-hand batsman and a left-arm spinner. He is playing Test, ODI, T20I for Sri Lanka and First class and List A in domestic arena. He studied at the Kalutara Vidyalaya. He usually fields at short cover.

During the West Indies tour in 2015, international commentators Russell Arnold and Ian Bishop praised Siriwardena as the Man with a golden arm due to his wicket-taking ability in each time he started to ball in crucial times.

He made his first-class debut for Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club in 2005. He has also represented the Sri Lankan A squad. The closest he came to national recognition was when he was included in the 30-member provisional squad for the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 in England, but he was left out of the final 15 squad. That call-up came close on the heels of his maiden first-class ton, 135 for Basnahira South against Ruhuna Royals in the SLC Inter-Provincial Tournament, a match in which he also claimed five wickets. In 2012, Milinda went over to England to become Bury CC's professional for the 2012 season but his stay was cut short as he was selected to play in the Sri Lanka Premier League.

On 11 July 2015, Milinda made his One Day International (ODI) debut at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in the ODI series against Pakistan.


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