He resigned as T20I captain after the 2024 T20 World Cup on 11 July[3] Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva was educated at Richmond College, Galle, where he started his cricket career.

[4] At the age of 16, he played as a frontline seam bowler and even opened the bowling for Richmonds College cricket team.

It was the coach who identified the potential on him to convert him into a leg-spinner after realizing Hasaranga's great arm speed.

[5] Hasaranga made his List A debut on 30 November 2015 in the AIA Premier Limited Over Tournament.

[7] He took seven wickets in the 2016 U19 World Cup which also included a match winning bowling performance of 3/34 against England in the quarter-final of the tournament to help Sri Lanka reach semi-final stage.

[8][9] He made his first-class debut for Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket Club in the 2015–16 Premier League Tournament, on 26 February 2016.

[18] Hasaranga was the leading run-scorer for Colombo Cricket Club in the 2018–19 Premier League Tournament, with 765 runs in nine matches.

[22] In August 2021, Hasaranga was included in the Royal Challengers Bangalore squad for the second phase of the 2021 Indian Premier League (IPL) in the UAE.

[24] In November 2021, he was selected to play for the Jaffna Kings following the players' draft for the 2021 Lanka Premier League.

[26][27] He delivered his best bowling figures in an IPL match and the best for any bowler at the Wankhede Stadium when he took 5 for 18 against Sunrisers Hyderabad in May 2022.

Before 2024 IPL, the Royal Challengers Bangalore released Hasaranga and was signed by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs.

[33] He was also the third debutant in ODI history to claim a hat-trick after Bangladeshi Taijul Islam and South African Kagiso Rabada.

During the ODI series against West Indies in March 2020, Hasaranga showed his all round talent where he took crucial wickets at the right time and scored match winning knocks.

[43] In the first ODI, he scored match winning unbeaten 42 runs to seal the game for Sri Lanka by 1 wicket.

[45] In December 2020, Hasaranga was named in Sri Lanka's Test squad for their series against South Africa.

[63] He also equalled with South Africa's Tabraiz Shamsi for taking most number of wickets in T20Is in a single calendar year.

In June 2023, Hasaranga was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe.

Against Afghanistan in February 2024 in second T20I, Hasaranga became the second fastest bowler after Afghan Rashid Khan to claim 100 T20 international wickets.

[73][74] In May 2024, he was named the captain in Sri Lanka’s squad for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup tournament.