Tillakaratne Dilshan to play for Derbyshire this summer
Tuesday 17 March 2015 09:35, UK
Derbyshire have signed experienced Sri Lanka batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan as their second overseas player for the forthcoming season.
The 38-year-old will be available for up to four NatWest Twenty20 Blast fixtures and two LV= County Championship Division Two matches when he takes over from New Zealand’s Martin Guptill in June.
Dilshan will return to the County Ground from the Caribbean Premier League at the beginning of August and will then be available until the end of the season.
He said: "Derbyshire are an ambitious club with an exciting young team and I'm looking forward to joining them in the NatWest T20 Blast and then returning to help them finish the season strongly.
"I am really pleased with my current form and this makes me confident I can make a strong contribution to Derbyshire this season."
Dilshan has played in 87 Test matches for Sri Lanka, scoring 5,492 runs, and his one-day international total comes to 9,796 runs in 312 matches.
He has also scored more than 5,000 runs across 232 T20 fixtures with Sri Lanka, who won the ICC World Twenty20 last year.
