# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kushal-janith-perera
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:56:39.938Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kushal-janith-perera"
name: "Kushal Janith Perera"
slug: "kushal-janith-perera"
description: "Mathurage Don Kusal Janith Perera, also referred to by his common initials KJP, is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer who currently plays limited overs cricket and is a former ODI cricket captain. He was a key member of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 winning team."
tagline: "Sri Lankan cricketer"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1990-08-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.966489333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump