Gehan Dassanayake
Sri Lankan cricketer
Gehan Dassanayake was a Sri Lankan cricketer who played for Sinhalese Sports Club.
Dassanayake made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1988–89 season, against Burgher Recreation Club. He did not bat in the match, but bowled 7 overs, taking figures of 2–11.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gehan Dassanayake” is sri Lankan cricketer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gehan, Dassanayake and Lankan, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “sri Lankan cricketer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
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 Dec 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5530061. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988.
The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Gehan Dassanayake”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Gehan Dassanayake primary sources, Gehan Dassanayake archive and Gehan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Gehan Dassanayake”?
- What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
- Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Gehan Dassanayake” 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.