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Lahiru Jayakody

cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ27949791 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lahiru Jayakody (born 29 August 1994) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club in the 2016–17 Premier League Tournament on 3 December 2016. He made his List A debut for Anuradhaura District in the 2016–17 Districts One Day Tournament on 15 March 2017. He made his Twenty20 debut for Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club in the 2017–18 SLC Twenty20 Tournament on 24 February 2018.

Lahiru was educated at Nalanda College, Colombo and he captained the Nalanda first XI cricket team in 2013.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lahiru Jayakody” as cricketer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2016, 2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-08-29. The account is most persuasive where Lahiru, Jayakody and cricketer can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as cricketer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27949791. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lahiru Jayakody” 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.