Cricketer who won the ICC World Twenty20 title with Sri Lanka in 2014. He has played domestic cricket for teams like the Ruhuna Rhinos.
He received the 2009 Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year Award while attending Ananda College.
He became the youngest Sri Lankan cricketer ever to score a century in One Day Internationals.
His father was killed in a tsunami when Dinesh was thirteen years old.
He was teammates with Mahela Jayawardene on the Sri Lankan team which won the 2014 ICC WOrld Twenty20 title.