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| Full name | Sarath Ransiri Wimalaratne | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 June 1942 Nawalapitiya, Ceylon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium pace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 24 February 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sarath Ransiri Wimalaratne (born 14 June 1942) is a former cricketer who played for Ceylon in the 1960s. He is now a physician in Sydney.
Wimalaratne attended Ananda College, where he captained the cricket team in 1962 and toured India with a Ceylon schools team. He then went to the University of Ceylon, where he studied medicine. [1]
He made his first-class debut in the Gopalan Trophy match in 1965–66, and was selected to tour Pakistan in 1966-67 with the Ceylon team. He played in all five first-class matches on the tour, including the three unofficial Tests against Pakistan. [1] Although primarily an opening bowler, he achieved more with the bat on the tour. In the first match against Pakistan, batting at number 11, he top-scored with 41 not out in the first innings, [2] while in the second match he opened the batting, scoring 28 and 27 and putting on 44 and 67 for the opening partnerships with Fitzroy Crozier, another bowler. [3]
In the Gopalan Trophy match in 1967-68 he captained the Ceylon team and took 5 for 32 and 5 for 36 in the victory over Madras. [4] He became disenchanted with cricket when he was not included in the team to make the planned tour of England in 1968; the tour was cancelled amid widespread dissatisfaction. [1]
He graduated in medicine from the University of Ceylon in 1971. [5] He went to live in New Zealand in 1972, doing his internship in Dunedin, then moved to Australia in 1975. [1] He lives in Sydney and practises as a GP in the suburb of North Strathfield. [5]
He and his first wife Eva, a doctor from Poland, had a son and a daughter. After their divorce he married his brother's widow Nelun, and they had a daughter. They also divorced, and he now lives with his partner Anne, who was born in the Philippines. [1]
In September 2018, he was one of 49 former Sri Lankan cricketers felicitated by Sri Lanka Cricket, to honour them for their services before Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC). [6] [7]
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