Career
He plays for the Sinhalese Sports Club and the Sri Lankan Test team He made his first class debut in the 2001/02 season. He is a right-handed wicket-keeper batsman.
Silva started off his cricketing career at South. Thomas" College, Mount Lavinia, where he Captained the Fist XI team in the historic 125th The Battle of the Blues.
During his school career he showed his ability to scoring big runs consistently during the seasons and his knack for putting up fighting, gritty innings. Silva received strong support from his father, a well recognized cricket coach, and credits him for the solid batting technique he has developed.
He was selected for Sri Lanka"s tour of South Africa at the end of 2011, but was dropped after the First Test. He scored his maiden test hundred against Bangladesh on 27 January 2014 at Dhaka.
Test centuries.
