Tuduwa Kankanamge Dhammika Sudarshana (born 19 June 1976) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and current head coach of Sri Lanka U19 cricket team. He pursued his education at the Richmond College, Galle.

Career

Dhammika started playing school cricket for Richmond College and also went onto captain his school cricket team. He played domestic cricket for Moors Sports Club, Galle Cricket Club and

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. He also captained the Galle CC in domestic cricket for a brief stint. The then head coach of Sri Lanka

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influenced his inclusion in the Sri Lanka A team but his first national callup was hampered after sustaining a knee injury while warming up playing

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. In February 2004, he was included in Sri Lanka Board XI squad captained by Russel Arnold for List A match against touring Australia. He made his

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debut on 17 August 2004, for Moors Sports Club in the

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. After his retirement, he served as the head coach of Richmond College cricket team and under his coaching Richmond cricket team had shown improvement from being in relegation to a prominent national school cricket team within ten years. In January 2021, he was appointed as the interim head coach of the Sri Lanka Under19 cricket team replacing

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with the focus on

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. In July 2021, he was appointed as the temporary batting coach of Sri Lankan team for the home bilateral limited overs series against India replacing Grant Flower who was tested positive for

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. He was chosen by

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for a short stint as the batting coach as he spent his time in the

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prior to the series against India.

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* 1976 births Living people Uva cricketers Sri Lanka Cricket Combined XI cricketers Kandurata cricketers Sri Lankan cricketers Sri Lankan cricket coaches Galle Cricket Club cricketers Moors Sports Club cricketers Alumni of Richmond College, Galle Cricketers from Galle {{SriLanka-cricket-bio-1970s-stub