Sendapperuma Archchige Rasanjali Chandima de Alwis (; born 26 November 1971) is a Sri Lankan former

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

er who played as a left-handed

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and right-arm

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bowler. She appeared in one

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and 22

One Day Internationals A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World Cup ...

for

Sri Lanka 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 1997 and 2000, including playing at the

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and

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World Cups. She played domestic cricket for Slimline Sports Club. Silva later married Sri Lankan cricketer

Guy de Alwis Ronald Guy de Alwis (February 15, 1959 - January 12, 2013) was a Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 11 Tests and 31 ODIs ODIS, or the Offender Data Information System is a web based, computerized records management software application to imp ...

, becoming the second married couple to have both played Test cricket.

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* * 1971 births Living people Sri Lankan women cricketers Sri Lanka women Test cricketers Sri Lanka women One Day International cricketers Slimline Sport Club women cricketers Sri Lanka women cricket captains Cricketers from Colombo {{SriLanka-cricket-bio-1970s-stub