Mangamuni Gamini Silva is a Sri Lanka

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...

n first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 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 and Test cricket

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...

 umpire

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Silva was born in Colombo

Colombo

Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...

 and became a policeman.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4072273.cms?prtpage=1 He played 12 matches of first-class cricket for Police Sports Club

Police Sports Club

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 in the Saravanamuttu Trophy in 1995/96. An all-rounder

All-rounder

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, he scored 341 runs in 17 innings as a right-handed batsman, at an average

Batting average

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 of 22.73, including 2 half-centuries, and reached a top score of 73 against Nondescripts Cricket Club

Nondescripts Cricket Club

Nondescripts Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1888...

 in January 1996.http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/61/61765.html A right-arm medium-pace bowler, he took 8 wickets at an average

Bowling average

Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...

 of 30.25, with best bowling of 2-10 against Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club

Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club

Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club are a first-class cricket team based in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Their home ground is De Zoysa Stadium.-Partnership records:* 1st - 171 BCMS Mendis & SK Silva * 2nd - 247 TM Dilshan & GG Ranga Yasalal...

 in December 1995.http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/61/61413.html

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.http://www.cricinfo.com/srilanka/engine/match/63894.html He has only stood in two other Tests - the 2nd Test between Sri Lanka and West Indies at Kandy in 2001,http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63959.html and the 2nd Test between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in Dhaka in 2005.http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/64122.html He joined the ICC

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's International Panel of Umpires and Referees

International Panel of Umpires and Referees

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 in 2002, as a specialist third umpire,http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdencricketer/content/story/112374.html and has also been the third umpire

Third umpire

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 in a further 8 Test matches between 2000 and 2009. He also umpired 21 One-day Internationals between 1999 and 2009, and two Twenty20 International

Twenty20 International

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s, most which were played in Sri Lanka.