MD Shanaka of Sri Lanka scored 54 not out against Australia at Pallekkele on 11 Jun 22 to provide the 18^th occasion of a Sri Lankan captain scoring a fifty in a T20I innings. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	I	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	M Jayawardene	65	1	Kenya	Jo’burg	14 Sep 2007
2	TM Dilshan	61	1	India	Col-RPS	10 Feb 2009
3	KC Sangakkara	55*	2	Australia	Nottingham	08 Jun 2009
4	KC Sangakkara	64*	1	Pakistan	Lord’s	21 Jun 2009
5	KC Sangakkara	69	2	New Zealand	Col-RPS	04 Sep 2009
6	KC Sangakkara	78	1	India	Nagpur	09 Dec 2009
7	KC Sangakkara	59	1	India	Mohali	12 Dec 2009
8	KC Sangakkara	68	1	West Indies	Bridgetown	07 May 2010
9	TM Dilshan	104*	1	Australia	Pallekele	06 Aug 2011
10	M Jayawardene	65*	2	West Indies	Pallekele	29 Sep 2012
11	LD Chandimal	58	1	Pakistan	Mirpur	04 Mar 2016
12	AD Mathews	73*	2	England	Delhi	26 Mar 2016
13	LD Chandimal	58	2	Australia	Pallekele	06 Sep 2016
14	AD Mathews	54*	2	South Africa	Jo’burg	22 Jan 2017
15	NLTC Perera	58	1	Bangladesh	Col-RPS	16 Mar 2018
16	NLTC Perera	57	2	England	Col-RPS	27 Oct 2018
17	MD Shanaka	74*	1	India	Dharamsala	27 Feb 2022
18	MD Shanaka	54*	2	Australia	Pallekele	11 Jun 2022

It also provides the fourth occasion of a Sri Lankan captain scoring a fifty in a T20I innings against Australia. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	I	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	KC Sangakkara	55*	2	Australia	Nottingham	08 Jun 2009
2	TM Dilshan	104*	1	Australia	Pallekele	06 Aug 2011
3	LD Chandimal	58	2	Australia	Pallekele	06 Sep 2016
4	MD Shanaka	54*	2	Australia	Pallekele	11 Jun 2022