# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matheesha-pathirana
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:29:19.139Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matheesha-pathirana"
name: "Matheesha Pathirana"
slug: "matheesha-pathirana"
description: "Heenatigala Pathiranage Matheesha Anushal Vihanga Pathirana, popularly as Matheesha Pathirana, is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer who currently plays limited over internationals for the national team. He has been referred to as \"Baby Malinga\", as he has modelled his bowling action after Lasith Malinga."
tagline: "Sri Lankan cricketer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "2002"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.631732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "متھیشا پتھیرانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "মাথিশা পাথিরানা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matheesha_Pathirana"
    title: "Matheesha Pathirana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matheesha_Pathirana"
    title: "Matheesha Pathirana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "मथीशा पथिराना"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "मथीशा पथिरना"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%A9"
    title: "மதீசா பத்திரன"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BE"
    title: "మతీషా పతిరనా"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108196357"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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