Gamini Silva

Mangamuni Gamini Silva (born 19 December 1960) is a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer and Test cricket umpire.

Silva was born in Colombo and became a policeman.[1] He played 12 matches of first-class cricket for Police Sports Club in the Saravanamuttu Trophy in 1995/96. An all-rounder, he scored 341 runs in 17 innings as a right-handed batsman, at an average of 22.73, including 2 half-centuries, and reached a top score of 73 against Nondescripts Cricket Club in January 1996.[2] A right-arm medium-pace bowler, he took 8 wickets at an average of 30.25, with best bowling of 2–10 against Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club in December 1995.[3]

He became a regular umpire in first-class cricket in the Sri Lankan domestic 1998/99 season, and first stood as an umpire in a Test match in the 2nd Test between Sri Lanka and South Africa in Kandy in 2000.[4] He has only stood in two other Tests - the 2nd Test between Sri Lanka and West Indies at Kandy in 2001,[5] and the 2nd Test between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in Dhaka in 2005.[6]

He joined the ICC's International Panel of Umpires and Referees in 2002, as a specialist third umpire,[7] and has also been the third umpire in a further 8 Test matches between 2000 and 2009. He also umpired 21 One-day Internationals between 1999 and 2009, and two Twenty20 Internationals, most which were played in Sri Lanka.