Dhammika Niroshana Age, Death, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Dhammika Niroshana

• Dhammika Niroshana made his Under-19 debut for the Sri Lanka cricket team against Singapore in 2000.

• He then played many Under-19 Test and ODI cricket matches for 2 years. He captained the Sri Lankan cricket team ten times but the team won only one match during his captaincy.
  

  An old picture of Dhammika Niroshana

• Later, Dhammika Niroshana made his senior First-class debut for the Sri Lanka Schools XI.

• He played domestic cricket for Chilaw Marians Cricket Club and Galle Cricket Club.

• Dhammika Niroshana played 12 First-class matches and 8 List-A matches for Galle Cricket Club from 2001 to 2004.

• He was a bowler with an average of under 30 in First-class, List A, and Under-19 cricket matches.
  

  Dhammika Niroshana while bowling during a cricket match in the 2000s

• Dhammika Niroshana stopped playing cricket at the age of 20.

• He was an all-rounder who scored over 300 runs and took 19 wickets in his career.

• On 16 July 2024, Dhammika Niroshana was killed by an unidentified person using a 12-bore gun outside his home in Kanda Mawatha, Ambalangoda, where he lived with his wife and two children.

• After the incident, Sri Lankan cricketer Amila Kalugalage confirmed the news of his death with a post on X.
  

  A snip of Dhammika Niroshana’s death news posted by Sri Lankan cricketer Amila Kalugalage on X