Dandeniyage Somachandra de Silva also known as D. S. de Silva (born 11 June 1942) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who played Test and One Day International cricket in the 1970s and 1980s. He is the first ODI cap for Sri Lanka, second test cap for Sri Lanka and was part of Sri Lanka's first test team. He bowled leg spin, and on the tour of Pakistan in 1982 he became the first Sri Lankan bowler to take five wickets in a Test innings. He was also the oldest player to lead Sri Lanka in test cricket during a test tour to New Zealand in 1983. He is also regarded as the longest serving spinner to have played for Sri Lanka and considered one of the finest leg spinners to have emerged from Sri Lanka. Life and career De Silva was educated at Mahinda College, Galle and hails from a tiny village in Unawatuna. Somachandra's elder brothers D. H. de Silva and D. P. de Silva were also Ceylonese first-class cricketers. Somachandra pursued his cricket career when he moved from Galle to Moratuwa when he was still a schoolboy. He took up the sport of cricket when he studied at the Prince of Wales' College, Moratuwa. De Silva made his debut for Ceylon in 1966-67 and played in most Sri Lankan teams thereafter until the mid-1980s. He also played in the M. J. Gopalan Trophy, a first class cricket tournament initiated between Ceylon and Madras. He was part of Sri Lanka's first World Cup team during the inaugural edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup in 1975. He made his ODI debut on 7 June at the 1975 World Cup against West Indies which was also Sri Lanka's first ever ODI appearance. He picked up the most number of wickets among spin bowlers during the 1975 World Cup with four scalps, in a tournament which was dominated by seamers. He was also part of Sri Lankan team in the 1979 cricket World Cup where Sri Lanka recorded their first top-level international victory, beating India by 47 runs. de Silva took three wickets for 29, including Dilip Vengsarkar and Mohinder Amarnath, as India crashed to 191 all out. He took his best first-class figures on the 1979 tour of England when he took 4 for 13 and 8 for 46 in the innings victory over Oxford University. When Sri Lanka