# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dhananjaya-de-silva
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:02:26.211Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dhananjaya-de-silva"
name: "Dhananjaya de Silva"
slug: "dhananjaya-de-silva"
description: "Dhananjaya Maduranga de Silva is a Sri Lankan professional cricketer, who plays for Sri Lanka in all formats of the game and for Tamil Union in domestic cricket and current captain of the national team in Test cricket. In November 2017, he was named the Test batsman of the year for the 2016–17 season at Sri Lanka Cricket's annual awards."
tagline: "Sri Lankan cricketer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1991-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.31
  momentum:             7.609930570166211
  historical:           9.099714666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump