# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akila-dananjaya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:06:07.050Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akila-dananjaya"
name: "Akila Dananjaya"
slug: "akila-dananjaya"
description: "Mahamarakkala Kurukulasooriya Patabendige Akila Dananjaya Perera, popularly as Akila Dananjaya, is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who played all forms of the game for the national team. In March 2021, he became the first bowler to take hat-trick and be hit for the maximum of six sixes in an over in the same match, by Kieron Pollard against West Indies."
tagline: "Sri Lankan cricketer"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1993-10-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.748813333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اکیلا دنن جیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اكيلا دانانچايا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "আকিলা ধনঞ্জয়"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akila_Dananjaya"
    title: "Akila Dananjaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akila_Dananjaya"
    title: "Akila Dananjaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "अकिला धनंजय"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "अकिला धनंजय"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "අකිල ධනංජය"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%9E%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%AF"
    title: "அகிலா தனஞ்செய"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%96%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%A7%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%AF"
    title: "అఖిల ధనంజయ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump