# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dasun-shanaka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:19:07.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dasun-shanaka"
name: "Dasun Shanaka"
slug: "dasun-shanaka"
description: "Madagamagamage Dasun Shanaka is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer who served as the captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Twenty20 Internationals. An all-rounder, Shanaka is a right-arm medium-fast bowler and an aggressive lower-order batsman."
tagline: "Sri Lankan cricketer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1991-09-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.74
  momentum:             2.444113263785395
  historical:           9.807746666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasun_Shanaka"
    title: "Dasun Shanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "داسون شاناكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "দাসুন শানাকা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasun_Shanaka"
    title: "Dasun Shanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasun_Shanaka"
    title: "Dasun Shanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasun_Shanaka"
    title: "Dasun Shanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "दासुन शनाका"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "दासुन शनाका"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A_%E0%B7%81%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%B1%E0%B6%9A"
    title: "දසුන් ශානක"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95"
    title: "தசுன் சானக்க"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%95"
    title: "దాసున్ షనక"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B4%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "دشن شانکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20745304"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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