Pathum Nissanka

Pathum Nissanka's Profile

Pathum Nissanka Silva, popularly known as Pathum Nissanka, born on 18 May 1998, is a famous professional Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman.

Born in Galle, Sri Lanka, his father, Sunil Silva, worked as a ground boy, and his mother sold flowers near Kalutara Temple in Sri Lanka. Nissanka came from a very poor family. Despite his poor background, he completed his early education at Kalutara Vidhyalaya and higher education at Isipathana College, Colombo. Nissanka started playing cricket during his school time. In his school Cricket Championship, he scored a double century with 205 runs in 190 balls against President’s College, held at Colts Ground, Colombo.

Nissanka made his List-A debut in the 2016-17 District One Day Tournament on 17 March 2017 for the Hambantota District. With his fabulous performance in this tournament, he got a chance to play in the T20 tournament on 24 February 2018. He debuted in the T20 tournament for the Badureliya Club in the 2017-18 SLC tournament. After this tournament, in March 2018, Nissan was selected in the Kandy’s Squad for the 2017-18 Super Four Provincial Tournament and 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.

Again in 2019, Nissan was selected in Kandy’s squad for the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. Thanks to his performances, Nissanka got the opportunity to be selected in the Sri Lanka A squad. In January 2019, he played his first first-class series against Ireland for Sri Lanka A, scoring 258 runs in just two matches. He was the leading run-scorer of that series. In February 2019, Nissanka scored his 1000th run in the 2018-19 Premier League Tournament, batting for Nondescripts Cricket Club against Colombo Cricket Club. He finished the tournament scoring 1,088 runs in seven matches.

He was added to Sri Lanka's team for the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup in Bangladesh held in November 2019. Later that month, he was included on the Sri Lanka team for the 2019 South Asian Games Men's Cricket competition. After losing to Bangladesh by seven wickets in the final, the Sri Lankan squad took home the silver meda...