# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lasith-malinga
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:13:28.479Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lasith-malinga"
name: "Lasith Malinga"
slug: "lasith-malinga"
description: "Separamadu Lasith Malinga is a Sri Lankan former cricketer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest limited overs bowlers of all time. Playing as a right-arm fast bowler, Malinga was commonly used as a specialist death bowler, and captained the Sri Lanka national cricket team to the 2014 T20 World Cup title. He was nicknamed \"Slinga Malinga\" due to his distinctive round-arm action, sometimes referred to as a sling action. He announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on 14 September 2021."
tagline: "Sri Lankan cricketer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lasith_Malinga_tossing_a_cricket_ball_at_practice.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1983-08-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.592256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Lasith99Malinga"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/lasithmalinga_official/"
    handle:    "lasithmalinga_official"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Official.Lasith.Malinga"
    handle:    "Official.Lasith.Malinga"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump