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Lakshitha de Silva

Sri Lankan cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ6479814 ↗
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Lakshitha de Silva (born Muthumuni Raween Lakshitha de Silva on 30 April 1990) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler who plays for Seeduwa Raddoluwa Sports Club. He was born in Chilaw. Lakshitha de Silva studied at Royal College, Colombo.

De Silva, who played for the Under-23s team during the 2009 season, made his List A debut in 2009–10, against Sri Lanka Navy Sports Club. In the first innings in which he batted, he scored 26 runs.

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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—1990, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-04-30. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lakshitha, Silva and Lankan providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lakshitha de Silva” 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.