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Gamindu Kanishka

Sri Lankan cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ28549816 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gamindu Kanishka (born 27 January 1987) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Saracens Sports Club in the 2007–08 Premier Trophy on 18 January 2008.

Editorial summary

“Gamindu Kanishka” enters the record as sri Lankan cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gamindu, Kanishka and Lankan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-01-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gamindu, Kanishka and Lankan.
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Why this record matters

“Gamindu Kanishka” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gamindu, Kanishka and Lankan provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28549816. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2007 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gamindu Kanishka” 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.