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Sewvinda Silva

cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ50384472 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sewvinda Silva (born 17 December 1995) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Negombo Cricket Club in the 2017–18 SLC Twenty20 Tournament on 27 February 2018. He made his List A debut for Negombo Cricket Club in the 2017–18 Premier Limited Overs Tournament on 10 March 2018.

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The public source identifies “Sewvinda Silva” as cricketer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sewvinda, Silva and cricketer.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-12-17. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sewvinda, Silva and cricketer providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q50384472. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sewvinda 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.