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Adeesha Nanayakkara

Sri Lankan cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ28115095 ↗
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Adeesha Nanayakkara (born 2 May 1991) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club in the 2013–14 Premier Trophy on 17 January 2014. Adeesha was educated at Nalanda College, Colombo.

In April 2018, he was named in Kandy's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. He was the leading run-scorer for Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket Club in the 2018–19 Premier League Tournament, with 650 runs in nine matches.

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This entry incorporates text from “Adeesha Nanayakkara” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.