Nadhula de Silva (born Emmanuel Nadhula de Silva Wijeratne on 10 November 1983) was a Sri Lankan cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm bowler who played for Sri Lanka Schools and Sri Lanka Under 19s. He was born in Colombo. De Silva played 3 matches for Sri Lanka Under-19s in their November 2001 tour of Pakistan. In the second youth ODI of the five match series, he scored a duck batting at number 11, but was more successful with the ball, taking 3/32 in his eight overs. Three days later, in the 3rd Youth ODI, he again failed to trouble the scorers with the bat, but took 3/46 in eight overs with the ball. He also played in the final youth ODI, with figures of 0/29 in seven overs. De Silva made four appearances for Sri Lanka Under-19s during the 2002 Under-23 tournament in Colombo. Across this tournament as a whole he took 5 wickets at 32 runs each, and scored 24 runs at 8.00. De Silva made a single first-class appearance for Sri Lanka Schools, during the 2002-03 BCCSL Invitation Quadrangular Tournament, against Sri Lanka A. Batting at number 10 in both innings, he scored 5 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and 24 runs in the second. He bowled 17 overs as an opening bowler in the match, taking a single wicket, that of Prasanna Jayawardene.
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