Shehan Madushanka

Devapurage Shehan Madushanka Kumara or commonly as Shehan Madushanka (born 10 May 1995) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays limited over internationals. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast medium bowler. He is a past pupil of Joseph Vaz College, Wennappuwa.

Personal information
Full name	Devapurage Shehan Madushanka Kumara
Born	(1995-05-10) 10 May 1995 (age 30) Wennappuwa, Sri Lanka
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right arm fast-medium
Role	Bowler
International information
National side	Sri Lanka (2018–present)
Only ODI (cap 186)	27 January 2018 v Bangladesh
ODI shirt no.	20
T20I debut (cap 75)	15 February 2018 v Bangladesh
Last T20I	18 February 2018 v Bangladesh
T20I shirt no.	20
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2017–present	Tamil Union
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I LA Matches 1 2 19 Runs scored 7 - 207 Batting average 7.00 - 20.70 100s/50s 0/0 -/- 0/0 Top score 7 - 36 Balls bowled 37 31 1403 Wickets 3 2 14 Bowling average 8.66 31.00 41.07 5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 0 Best bowling 3/26 2/23 3/26 Catches/stumpings 0/0 0/0 1/0
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 6 March 2020

Domestic career

Madushanka made his first class debut against Zimbabwe Development XI.^[1] He made his List A debut for Kilinochchi District in the 2016–17 Districts One Day Tournament on 15 March 2017.^[2]

In March 2018, Madushanka was named in Dambulla's squad for the 2017–18 Super Four Provincial Tournament.^[3][4] The following month, he was also named in Dambulla's squad for the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.^[5]

In August 2018, Madushanka was named in Dambulla's squad the 2018 SLC T20 League.^[6] In March 2019, he was named in Galle's squad for the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.^[7]

International career

In January 2018, Madushanka was named in Sri Lanka's One Day International (ODI) squad for the 2017–18 Bangladesh Tri-Nation Series.^[8] He made his ODI debut for Sri Lanka against Bangladesh in the finale match of the tri-series on 27 January 2018.^[9] In the match, he became the fourth bowler and second Sri Lankan to take a hat-trick on debut in an ODI.^[10]

In February 2018, Madushanka was named in Sri Lanka's Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Bangladesh.^[11] He made his T20I debut for Sri Lanka against Bangladesh on 15 February 2018.^[12] In the second T20I, Madushanka took two early wickets in one over before sustaining a hamstring injury and was later ruled out from bowling. However, his injury didn’t affect Sri Lanka as they won the match along with the series.^[13] However, due to his injury, he missed out the Nidahas Trophy in March 2018,^[14] and several other bilateral series.

In May 2018, Madushanka was one of the 33 cricketers to be awarded a national contract by Sri Lanka Cricket ahead of the 2018–19 season.^[15][16] In December 2018, he was named in Sri Lanka team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup.^[17]

Drug Incident

In May 2020, Madushanka was arrested for allegedly being in possession of heroin and then suspended from all forms of cricket.^[18][19]