Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan, commonly known as TM Dilshan is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team.
107 Facts About Tillakaratne Dilshan
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is often regarded as the best rated Sri Lankan player in run-chases in ODI history and one of the most innovative players of all time.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is an aggressive right-hand batsman who invented the scoop, which has come to be known as the Dilscoop, a shot that hits the ball over the keeper.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan made his Test and ODI debut during the Sri Lankan cricket team's tour to Zimbabwe in 1999.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is the second cap for Sri Lanka in Twenty20 Internationals.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is the first cricketer in the history of the game to score hundreds in all formats as a captain.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan won the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year award at the 2009 ICC Awards for his 96 off 57 ball shots against West Indies in the semi-final of the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 in England.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan won the man of the series trophy for his individual batting performances in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 tournament.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was a key member of the team that won the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and was part of the team that made the finals of 2007 Cricket World Cup, 2011 Cricket World Cup, 2009 ICC World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC World Twenty20.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is the fourth Sri Lankan, and eleventh player overall to score 10,000 ODI runs.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan scored 1000 or more ODI runs in a calendar year four times and never failed to amass fewer than 800 runs in any calendar year between 2009 and 2015.
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When he gained the opening batting position, Tillakaratne Dilshan became one of the finest cricketers in the world and a legend in modern cricketing history.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan retired from ODI cricket on 28 August 2016 and from T20I cricket on 9 September 2016.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was born on 14 October 1976 in Kalutara, to a Malay father and a Sinhalese mother in a family with five siblings.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was educated at Jaffna Sinhala Madya Maha Vidyalaya in Jaffna for primary education, and then at the Kalutara Vidyalaya, where he started his cricket career as a teenager.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan converted from Islam to Buddhism at the age of 16, and was known as Tuwan Mohammad Tillakaratne Dilshan before his conversion.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was issued with a notice to appear in court after the 2011 Cricket World Cup, but he refused some of these notices.
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The court case was opened again in 2017, after Tillakaratne Dilshan had failed to pay some of the monthly fees.
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However, Tillakaratne Dilshan finally appeared on court on 25 April 2017.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is married to Sri Lankan actress Manjula Thilini.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan has two daughters and two sons from this marriage.
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Dilshan's brother, Tillakaratne Sampath, is a first-class cricketer in Sri Lanka.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is a popular icon at home, and participated in many local events and television programs.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was appointed as a special judge in Sirasa Superstar, Generation 4.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan participated in a number of entertainment shows, due to his wife's status as a popular Sri Lankan actress.
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On 23 October 2014, Tillakaratne Dilshan opened a small-scale luxury hotel, named as "Hotel 'D Pavilion Inn'", situated at Stafford Lane in Kirulapana.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan made his television debut in an episode of Kopi Kade drama on 5 April 2017.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan first played against Zimbabwe on 18 November 1999 at Bulawayo.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan scored 9 runs on his debut and was out LBW to a delivery off Henry Olonga.
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However, Tillakaratne Dilshan managed to score his maiden test century at the Harare Sports Club in the second test between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan scored an unbeaten 163 runs in the first innings and was awarded the player of the match award for his role in the Sri Lankan victory.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan achieved his highest test score in England, where he scored 193 runs in the second test at the Lord's cricket ground, against England.
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The pitch at Rajkot was perfect to bat on, Tillakaratne Dilshan started the run chase with Tharanga, instead of Jayasuriya.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan's knock was later nominated to be one of the Best ODI Batting Performance of the year by ESPN Cricinfo.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was named in the 'Team of the Tournament' by ESPN Cricinfo for the 2009 T20I World Cup.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan's knock of 96* against West Indies was later nominated to be one of the Best T20I Batting Performance of the year by ESPN Cricinfo.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan played almost all his international matches as a middle-order all-round batsman during his early years.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is credited for the creation of the Dilscoop, which he stumbled upon and then perfected, during the Indian Premier League 2009 tournament.
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Apart from his Dilscoop, Tillakaratne Dilshan is a prolific player of width possessing the ability to hit nearly any delivery pitched outside the off-stump for runs, and has perfected a lethal cover drive against pace bowlers.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was the top run scorer in the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan scored 500 runs from nine One Day international innings with the best score of 144 runs against Zimbabwe.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan scored two centuries, two half-centuries, 61 boundaries, and four sixes during the tournament which ended at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, India, in April 2011.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was named in the 'Team of the Tournament' for the 2011 World Cup by the ICC and Cricinfo.
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Immediately after the end of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, with Kumar Sangakkara stepping down as captain, Tillakaratne Dilshan was appointed the captain of Sri Lanka in all formats of the game.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan said after his retirement in ODIs that, he did not want to take the captaincy, but Sri Lanka Cricket asked him to take the captaincy for six months until they found someone suitable.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan accepted the task, but the many troubles in the team such as retirements and injuries led him to reduce performances.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan scored 193 runs against England at Lord's, breaking the record for the highest individual score made by a Sri Lankan at the venue, and lead Sri Lanka to their maiden test win in South Africa.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan said that he had a lack of support during captaincy tenure and help from former captains and coaches for the team.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan became the 5th player in international cricket to score centuries in all forms of the game.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan scored the century from just 57 balls with 12 fours and 5 sixes.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan achieved his century with a dilscoop hitting behind the wicket-keeper.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan announced his retirement from Test cricket on 9 October 2013.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan played 87 test matches amassing 5,492 runs, along with 16 centuries and 39 wickets.
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On 16 December 2014, in his 300th One-Day International, Tillakaratne Dilshan scored his 18th ODI century and passed 9,000 runs in ODIs.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan became the fourth Sri Lankan cricketer and 15th overall to achieve this landmark.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan took 3 crucial wickets in the match against England and aided Sri Lanka's title claim as the winners of the tournament.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan won both man of the match award and man of the series award.
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On 23 January 2015, Tillakaratne Dilshan scored his 20th One-Day International century against New Zealand, becoming the 10th batsmen to score 20 ODI centuries.
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On 1 March 2015, during a group match against England, Tillakaratne Dilshan took his 100th ODI wicket by dismissing Gary Ballance off his own bowling, thus becoming the third Sri Lankan to score 3000 runs and take 100 wickets after Jayasuriya and Aravinda.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan got out without scoring in the quarterfinals and Sri Lanka exited the World Cup without making the semifinals for the first time since 2003.
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On 26 July 2015, Tillakaratne Dilshan passed 10,000 ODI runs during the fifth ODI against Pakistan at Hambantota.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was the second person after Sanath Jayasuriya to score more than 4000 ODI runs after the age of 35 and surpassed Jayasuriya's record of 4,142 runs in 2015.
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Until retirement, Tillakaratne Dilshan has scored 4,674 ODI runs after the age of 35, most by a player.
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On 9 November 2015, Tillakaratne Dilshan became the highest run scorer for Sri Lanka in Twenty20 Internationals passing 1,493 runs of Mahela Jayawardena.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan surpassed 1202 runs by Jayasuriya as most runs by an opening batsman for Sri Lanka in a calendar year.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan scored 1207 runs in the year 2015 with 4 hundreds and 6 fifties.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan finished 2015 ODI arena as the highest ODI run scorer for Sri Lanka and third highest of all-time list.
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The veteran of 39 years of age, Tillakaratne Dilshan showcased incredible all-around ability and had no mercy for the bowlers for all nations, got 4 hundreds and 6 fifties.
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Until retirement in August, Tillakaratne Dilshan has surpassed more than 800 runs each in four consecutive years from 2012 to 2015.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was not totally successful in 2016 Asia Cup, where Sri Lanka lost to Bangladesh and India lost the way to the finals.
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On 4 March 2016, against Pakistan, Tillakaratne Dilshan reached another milestone by hitting 200 fours in all twenty20 internationals and the first player to break 200 fours in T20Is.
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The innings reached by Afghanistan was 153 and, Tillakaratne Dilshan started the innings with showers of four and sixes in a consecutive manner in first six overs.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan finished his last international major event as the highest scorer for Sri Lanka with 133 runs at an average of 44.33.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was not included in the England tour in 2016; which was due to his personal reasons.
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On 25 August 2016, Tillakaratne Dilshan announced his retirement from the international arena after the Australian tour.
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Many Sri Lankan cricketers wished Tillakaratne Dilshan and spoke about him as:.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan had an outstanding career as an opener in all three formats.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan was a brilliant fielder and an intelligent bowler.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan played his last ODI at Rangiri Dambulla Stadium on 28 August 2016.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan scored 42 runs in his last ODI innings.
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Until his retirement from ODIs, Tillakaratne Dilshan is the 11th highest ODI scorer of all time and 7th highest century maker of all time.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan played his last Twenty20 International at R Premadasa Stadium on 9 September 2016.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan got out for a just single run in the match, but his fielding and bowling came back to the highest level.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan took 2 crucial wickets at the end of the Australian innings, by ending 17 years of cricketing career.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan ended his international career with a wicket off his last ball.
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At the time of his retirement, Tillakaratne Dilshan was the second highest T20I run scorer of all time.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan became the anchor man in every game, where he scored fifties against South Africa and England Legends.
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However, Tillakaratne Dilshan became the Player of the Series due to his allround match winning performances.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan hit the most boundaries in the tournament.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan publicly displayed his support to Mahinda Rajapaksa at the 2015 Presidential Election.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan did so by welcoming Mahinda Rajapakse to Maharagama for an election rally.
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In 2018, Tillakaratne Dilshan announced that he had joined Mahinda Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party.
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In 2018, Tillakaratne Dilshan praised the president, Maithripala Sirisena for deciding to implement the Death penalty for drug traffickers.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan has 16 Test centuries, 22 One-Day International centuries, and 1 Twenty20 International century.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is the first cricketer in the history to score centuries in all formats as a captain.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is the second Sri Lankan and fifth overall to achieve international centuries in all forms of the game.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan has scored 39 centuries in Test matches, One Day International matches and Twenty20 International, organized by the International Cricket Council.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan has scored 16 centuries in Test matches and 22 centuries in ODIs, and one in T20Is.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan scored his 16th and last Test century on 18 March 2013 at the Galle International Stadium in Galle against Bangladesh.
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In Test matches, Tillakaratne Dilshan has scored centuries against all the Test cricket playing nations except South Africa and West Indies, and has scored 150 against four of them.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is seventh on the list of leading Test century makers for Sri Lanka.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan's centuries have been scored at ten cricket grounds, six of which were outside Sri Lanka.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan has been dismissed two times in the nineties.
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In ODIs, Tillakaratne Dilshan has scored centuries against all test playing opponents except West Indies.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan is third in the list of leading century-makers in ODIs for Sri Lanka.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan has been dismissed one time in the ninetynine.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan scored his only T20I century against Australia in 2011, and became the fifth batsmen to score hundreds in all forms of the game.