# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dinesh-chandimal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:27:27.079Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dinesh-chandimal"
name: "Dinesh Chandimal"
slug: "dinesh-chandimal"
description: "Lokuge Dinesh Chandimal is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. A handy right-handed middle order batter who sometimes plays as the wicket-keeper, Chandimal lead Sri Lanka in the group stages of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in which Sri Lanka ended up as the champions."
tagline: "Sri Lankan cricketer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dinesh_Chandimal_2.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1989-11-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.24
  momentum:             18.60411899313501
  historical:           8.952274666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "chandi_17"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump