{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Premachandra de Silva | image = | country = Sri Lanka | fullname = Dandeniya Premachandra de Silva | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | family = Hemachandra de Silva (brother)<br>Somachandra de Silva (brother) | batting = | bowling = | role = Batsman | club1 = | year1 = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 12 | runs1 = 328 | bat avg1 = 16.40 | 100s/50s1 = 0/2 | top score1 = 60 | deliveries1 = 34 | wickets1 = 1 | bowl avg1 = 11.00 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 1/4 | catches/stumpings1 = 2/– | date = 6 September 2018 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/player/48624.html Cricinfo }} '''Dandeniya Premachandra de Silva''' (also known as '''D. P. de Silva''') is a former Ceylonese cricketer. He was a middle order batsman who represented Ceylon in first-class cricket from 1962 to 1968.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/26/26215/First-Class_Matches.html First-Class Matches played by Premachandra de Silva]</ref>
He was educated at Mahinda College, Galle, where he started his cricket career.<ref>[http://archives.dailynews.lk/2012/10/19/spo23.asp Cricket performance centre for Mahinda]</ref> He toured India in 1964-65 with the Ceylon team, playing in one of the three unofficial Tests. His highest first-class score was 60 when he opened the batting and top-scored for the Ceylon Board President's XI against Hyderabad Blues in 1966–67.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ceylon Board President's XI v Hyderabad Blues 1966-67 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/28/28647.html |website=CricketArchive |accessdate=6 September 2018}}</ref>
He was a heavy scorer in domestic cricket in Ceylon. In a match in the Government Services league in July 1959 he scored 276 out of a team total of 925.<ref>S. S. Perera, ''The Janashakthi Book of Sri Lanka Cricket (1832–1996)'', Janashakthi Insurance, Colombo, 1999, pp. 279–80.</ref> In 1967–68, playing for Nomads in the P Sara Trophy, he set a record for the highest run aggregate for a season.<ref>Perera, p. 344.</ref>
Premachandra is the second of four ''Dandeniya de Silva'' brothers. His elder brother Hemachandra was also a Ceylonese first class cricketer.<ref>[http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=sports/d-h-was-best-sporting-municipal-comissioner-kandy D H was the best sporting Municipal Commissioner of Kandy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032200/http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=sports%2Fd-h-was-best-sporting-municipal-comissioner-kandy |date=2014-05-02 }}</ref> His younger brother Somachandra played Test cricket for Sri Lanka and later became the Chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket. After complaints by the match umpires, Premachandra and Hemachandra were suspended for 12 months in May 1965 for misbehaviour during a P Sara Trophy match.<ref>Perera, p. 308.</ref>
In September 2018, he was one of 49 former Sri Lankan cricketers felicitated by Sri Lanka Cricket, to honour them for their services to cricket before Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.srilankacricket.lk/news/sri-lanka-cricket-to-felicitate-49-past-cricketers |title=Sri Lanka Cricket to felicitate 49 past cricketers |work=Sri Lanka Cricket |accessdate=5 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906014051/http://www.srilankacricket.lk/news/sri-lanka-cricket-to-felicitate-49-past-cricketers |archive-date=6 September 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.srilankacricket.lk/news/slc-launched-the-program-to-felicitate-ex-cricketers |title=SLC launched the program to felicitate ex-cricketers |work=Sri Lanka Cricket |accessdate=5 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906014108/http://www.srilankacricket.lk/news/slc-launched-the-program-to-felicitate-ex-cricketers |archive-date=6 September 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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