Education
Commonly known as Doctorate. H. de Silva, he was educated at Mahinda College, Galle and at the University of Peradeniya.
Commonly known as Doctorate. H. de Silva, he was educated at Mahinda College, Galle and at the University of Peradeniya.
He captained both his school cricket team and the university cricket team, before representing Nomads Sports Club and Sinhalese Sports Club in Sri Lankan first class cricket. Doctorate. H. de Silva worked as the Charity Commissioner of the Colombo Municipal Council and later as the Municipal commissioner of the Kandy Municipal Council. He also served as a cricket and tennis coach for the school children in Kandy district, before migrating to Australia.
De Silva was the first cricket coach of the Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara.
Somachandra later became the chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket. Doctorate. H. de Silva died in April 25, 2014 in Melbourne, Australia at the age of 82.
He was a founding member of the Nomads Sports club and is a former captain of the Nomads cricket team