Dhansiri Weerasinghe (1936 – 7 July 2020) was a

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who played 12 matches of

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for

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

between 1958 and 1969.Weerasinghe. — Danasiri H.A.
/ref> Weerasinghe attended

Ananda College ''Appamādo Amathapadan'' (Buddhist quote from the Apramada Vagga in the Dhammapada) , motto_translation = Heedfulness, Punctuality leads to Nirvana , location = P De S Kularatne Mawatha , city = Colom ...

Colombo Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...

. On his first-class debut in 1957-58 he scored 57 against

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. He made his highest score of 92 when he captained Ceylon to a draw in the Gopalan Trophy match in 1968–69. He toured India with the Ceylon team in 1964-65, playing in one of the three matches against

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, but with little success. He was one of the selectors who included him in the Ceylon team to tour England in 1968, but the tour was cancelled just before it was due to begin.S. S. Perera, ''The Janashakthi Book of Sri Lanka Cricket (1832–1996)'', Janashakthi Insurance, Colombo, 1999, pp. 320–26. Weerasinghe married Chatra Tennakoon in 1965, and they had three daughters. They migrated to Australia in 1974. He died in

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in July 2020.

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* 1936 births 2020 deaths Sri Lankan cricketers All-Ceylon cricketers Alumni of Ananda College Sri Lankan emigrants to Australia Place of birth missing {{SriLanka-cricket-bio-stub