| Birth name | Imran Bisthamin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 1985 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kandy, Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Imran Bisthamin is a rugby union footballer in Sri Lanka who played for Sri Lanka, and Kandy Sports Club. [1] [2] He is a product of St. Anthony's College, Kandy, [3] where he captained the college rugby team.
Bistamin played at Number 8 third-row-forward. [4] [5] Bisthamin represented the country at the Asian Rugby tournament in 2007.
On November 22, 2008, Bisthamin faced career-threatening injuries to the head and spinal cord when he fell from an upper floor of a restaurant at the George R de Silva Shopping Complex in Kandy. [6] [7] He was unconscious and rushed to the Kandy General Hospital and treated in the intensive-care unit [8] for Brain haemorrhage. He regained consciousness after three weeks. [9]
On 2008, the exclusion of Bistamin from the Sri Lanka National Rugby Team ahead of Asian Five Nation Rugby Championship in Taiwan created a controversy with the second set of selectors led by Rohan Abeykoon protesting against the nepotistic move by Minister of Sports at that time, Gamini Lokuge. [10] [11]
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