deliveries columns catches/stumpings year birth_date education bowling tenfor country club heightft fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column role source date runs wickets s/s matches heightinch article_title
84 1,901 991 354 4 1 ; 7 / & ndash ; 2 / & ndash / ; & ndash ; 4 / & ndash 2012 -- present 2013-present 2014 4 october 1993 mahanama vidyalaya , panadura right-arm off break 0 0 0 0 sri lanka wayamba united chennai super kings 5 0 1 0 0 left-handed akila dananjaya අක ල ධන ජය mahamarakkala kurukulasooriya patabendige akila dananjaya perera panadura , basnahira , sri lanka t20i fc list a t20 all-rounder http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/player/574178.html espncricinfo 1993 10 4 y 0 234 10 1 7 47 20 22 0/0 0/2 0/0 0/0 5 15 28 18 7 akila dananjaya

akila dananjaya

mahamarakkala kurukulasooriya patabendige akila dananjaya perera -lrb- born 4 october 1993 in panadura , western province -rrb- is a sri lankan cricketer .
the son of a carpenter from panadura , dananjaya is another installment of sri lanka 's long line of unorthodox spinners .
officially a left-hand batsman and an off-break bowler , he is said to have seven variations , including the leg-break , googly , carrom ball , doosra and his stock off-spinner that had impressed national team captain mahela jayawardene so much in the nets as to make jayawardene request him to be fast-tracked into the national squad .
dhananjaya had at that point played no first-class , list a , t20 or even u-19 cricket .
this in turn led to controversy as his selection was questioned by the media on the basis of a net performance .
he was selected to play for wayamba united in the inaugural sri lanka premier league .
in only his second match for the franchise , he took 3-18 against nagenahira nagas , consistently disturbing the batsmen with his flight , googly and other variations .
this in turn led to a place in the final squad for the 2012 icc world twenty20 .
in the 2013 ipl auctions , dananjaya was sold to the chennai super kings for his base price of $ 20,000 .
