Shaminda Eranga is a Sri Lankan

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He studied at St.Mary's college in Chilaw.

Shaminda made his One Day International debut for Sri Lanka on 16 August 2011 at Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota

Hambantota

Hambantota is a coastal city in the south of Sri Lanka. It is the capital of the Hambantota District...

 against Australia.

He made his test

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 debut on September 16, 2011 and took a wicket with his first ball, becoming the 15th player to do so in the history of test cricket.