# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/niroshan-dickwella
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:12:35.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/niroshan-dickwella"
name: "Niroshan Dickwella"
slug: "niroshan-dickwella"
description: "Dickwella Patabendige Dilantha Niroshan Dickwella, known as Niroshan Dickwella, is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays all formats of the game for Sri Lanka. A left-hand batsman, he also plays as a wicket-keeper of the team. Dickwella is known for hitting left handed Dilscoops. In November 2017, he was named the emerging cricketer of the year for the 2016–17 season at Sri Lanka Cricket's annual awards."
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: "1993-06-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.56
  momentum:             10.43478260869565
  historical:           6.257564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "நிரோசன் டிக்வெல்ல"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump