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 is playing Test, ODI, T20I for Sri Lanka and First class and List A in domestic arena. He studied at the Kalutara Vidyalaya. 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.