Milinda Siriwardana

Milinda Siriwardana
Personal information
Full name
Tisse Appuhamilage Milinda Siriwardana
Born (1985-12-04) 4 December 1985
Nagoda, Sri Lanka
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox
RoleBatting all rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 131)14 October 2015 v West Indies
Last Test27 May 2016 v England
ODI debut (cap 164)11 July 2015 v Pakistan
Last ODI15 June 2019 v Australia
ODI shirt no.57
T20I debut (cap 55)1 August 2015 v Pakistan
Last T20I6 April 2017 v Bangladesh
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
Basnahira South
Chilaw Marians CC
Sebastianites C&AC
2014Kandurata Maroons
Dhaka Division
Sri Lanka A
Victoria SC
2012Ruhuna Royals
2020Bhairahawa Gladiators
2020Galle Gladiators
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 5 27 131 186
Runs scored 298 516 7,715 3,768
Batting average 33.11 22.43 39.16 27.70
100s/50s 0/2 0/3 14/51 2/20
Top score 68 66 185* 112
Balls bowled 413 601 8,153 3,891
Wickets 11 9 156 107
Bowling average 23.36 60.77 33.14 28.50
5 wickets in innings 0 0 6 1
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 3/25 2/27 5/26 6/40
Catches/stumpings 3/– 6/– 106/– 86/–
Source: ESPNricinfo, 28 July 2021

Tisse Appuhamilage Milinda Siriwardana, commonly as Milinda Siriwardana (born 4 December 1985) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays for limited over formats. He is a left-hand batsman and a left-arm spinner. He started his cricket career at Kalutara Vidyalaya. He is playing Test, ODI, T20I for Sri Lanka and First class and List A in domestic arena. He usually fields at short cover.

During the West Indies tour in 2015, international commentators Russell Arnold and Ian Bishop praised Siriwardena as the Man with a golden arm due to his wicket-taking ability in each time he started to ball in crucial times.