Tillakaratne Dilshan

Tillakaratne Dilshan

Personal information
Full name	Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan
Born	(1976-10-14) 14 October 1976 Kalutara, Sri Lanka
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right arm off spin
Role	Batsman
International information
National side	Sri Lanka
Test debut (cap 80)	18 November 1999 v Zimbabwe
Last Test	16 March 2013 v Bangladesh
ODI debut (cap 102)	11 December 1999 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI	28 March 2013 v Bangladesh
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1996–1997	Kalutara Town Club
1997–1998	Singha Sports Club
1998–2000	Sebastianites C&AC
2000–present	Bloomfield C&AC
2007–present	Basnahira South
2008–2010	Delhi Daredevils
2011–present	Royal Challengers Bangalore
2012–present	Basnahira Cricket Dundee
2013–present	Dhaka Gladiators
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 87 258 226 354 Runs scored 5,492 7,254 13,701 10,642 Batting average 40.98 36.82 39.25 38.83 100s/50s 16/23 16/29 38/57 23/50 Top score 193 160* 200* 188 Balls bowled 3,385 4,087 6,255 5,465 Wickets 39 68 87 103 Bowling average 43.87 47.79 35.82 41.25 5 wickets in innings 0 0 1 0 10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a Best bowling 4/10 4/4 5/49 4/4 Catches/stumpings 88/– 98/1 352/23 176/8
Source: ESPNricinfo, 28 March 2013

Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan (Sinhala: තිලකරත්න මුදියන්සේලාගේ දිල්ෂාන්); born October 14, 1976 in Kalutara, Sri Lanka is a Sri Lankan cricketer and former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He has been a member of the team since November 1999, and was also known as Tuwan Mohammad Dilshan before his conversion to Buddhism. He is an aggressive right-hand batsman who invented a stroke, which has come to be known as a dilscoop, that pitches the ball over the wicketkeeper's head. He is also capable in spin bowling; his off breaks are mostly used in the one-day arena. Dilshan won the award of Twenty20 International Performance of the Year at the 2009 ICC Awards for his 96 off 57 balls against West Indies in the semi-final of the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 in England. He also won man of the series trophy for his individual batting performances in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 tournament.

Personal life

Dilshan was born to a Malay father and a Sinhalese mother. He was educated at Kalutara Vidyalaya National School in Kalutara. He is now married to Sri Lankan teledrama actress Manjula Thilini. The marriage was celebrated in India during the 2008 IPL series. Dilshan has a daughter from his second marriage and a son from his first marriage. Dilshan's brother, Tillakaratne Sampath, is a first-class cricketer in Sri Lanka.

On 29 December 2011, Sri Lanka registered their first ever Test win in South Africa. This also became their first Test win under Dilshan's captaincy. However, after losing the Test series 2–1 and the subsequent ODI series 3–2, Dilshan resigned and was replaced by Mahela Jayawardene.

His highest score in One Day Internationals came against India at the Bellerive Oval on 28 February 2012. He scored 160* off 165 balls.
During this innings, he also shared a 200 run second run partnership with Kumar Sangakkara. This was the highest second wicket partnership for Sri Lanka in ODIs.Despite his performance Sri Lanka lost the match to India.

Test centuries

The following table gives a summary of the Test centuries scored by Tillakaratne Dilshan.

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out
• The column title Match refers to the Match number of the player's career

Test centuries of Tillakaratne Dilshan
	Runs	Match	Against	City/country	Venue	Year
[1]	163	1	Zimbabwe	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	1999
[2]	100	11	England	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Asgiriya Stadium	2003
[3]	104	13	Australia	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	2004
[4]	168	27	Bangladesh	Colombo, Sri Lanka	P. Saravanamuttu Stadium	2005
[5]	125	46	India	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2008
[6]	162	50	Bangladesh	Chittagong, Bangladesh	Chittagong Divisional Stadium	2009
[7]	143
[8]	145	52	Pakistan	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	2009
[9]	123*	56	New Zealand	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	2009
[10]	112	58	India	Ahmedabad, India	Sardar Patel Stadium	2009
[11]	109	60	India	Mumbai, India	Brabourne Stadium	2009
[12]	193	68	England	London, England	Lord's Cricket Ground	2011
[13]	101	80	Pakistan	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	2012
[14]	121	81	Pakistan	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	2012
[15]	147	83	Australia	Hobart, Australia	Bellerive Oval	2012
[16]	126	86	Bangladesh	Galle, Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	2013

One Day International centuries

ODI centuries of Tillakaratne Dilshan
	Runs	Match	Against	City/country	Venue	Year
[1]	116	94	Netherlands	Amstelveen, Netherlands	VRA Ground	2006
[2]	137*	155	Pakistan	Lahore, Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium	2009
[3]	106	164	South Africa	Centurion, South Africa	SuperSport Park	2009
[4]	160	167	India	Rajkot, India	Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground	2009
[5]	123	168	India	Nagpur, India	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground	2009
[6]	104	172	Bangladesh	Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh	Shere Bangla National Stadium	2010
[7]	108*	179	Zimbabwe	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	2010
[8]	110	188	India	Dambulla, Sri Lanka	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	2010
[9]	144	199	Zimbabwe	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	2011
[10]	108*	201	England	Colombo, Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium	2011
[11]	160*	231	India	Hobart, Australia	Bellerive Oval	2012
[12]	106	234	Australia	Adelaide, Australia	Adelaide Oval	2012
[13]	119*	240	Pakistan	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	2012
[14]	102*	250	New Zealand	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	2012
[15]	113*	256	Bangladesh	Hambantota, Sri Lanka	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium	2013
[16]	125	258	Bangladesh	Kandy, Sri Lanka	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	2013

T20I Cricket Centuries

T20I centuries of Tillakaratne Dilshan
	Runs	Match	Against	City/country	Venue	Year
[1]	104*	33	Australia	Pallekele, Sri Lanka	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	2011

Further reading

• The decision that changed my career - Dilshan

External links

• Player profile: Tillakaratne Dilshan from ESPNcricinfo
• Player profile: Tillakaratne Dilshan from CricketArchive
• Dilshan IPL Profile from RoyalChallengers