Career
He played four Test matches and six ODIs for Sri Lanka, bowling accurate slow left arm spin. Due to this, he was excluded from world cricket, along with the rest of the players on that tour. This effectively finished his first-class career, beginning in November 1973, in which he claimed 161 wickets (av 2744).
He played a crucial part in Sri Lanka"s first ODI victory on home soil - against England in 1982.
However, de Silva removed both openers (stumped by Mahes Goonatilleke), four players were run out, and England lost by three runs.