Educated at St. Peter's College, Colombo he joined the Royal Ceylon Volunteer Air Force in 1968. He had played for his college cricket team and went on to play for the air force cricket team until 1977. He first played for Ceylon in 1971 and was a member of the Sri Lankan teams playing in the World Cups in England in 1975 and 1979. He later played club cricket in Ireland for one season in 1979 and was offered the post of coach of the Holland team.[4]
As player/manager of the rebel tour to South Africa in 1982–83 in defiance of the sporting ban against the apartheid state, he and the other tourists received a lifetime ban from international cricket.
tony, opatha, antony, ralph, marinon, opatha, august, 1947, september, 2020, lankan, cricketer, right, medium, pace, bowler, played, five, internationals, 1975, 1979, cricket, world, cups, ඕප, තpersonal, informationfull, nameantony, ralph, marinon, opathaborn,. Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha 5 August 1947 11 September 2020 was a Sri Lankan cricketer 1 A right arm medium pace bowler he played five One Day Internationals at the 1975 and 1979 Cricket World Cups 2 3 Tony Opatha ට න ඕප තPersonal informationFull nameAntony Ralph Marinon OpathaBorn 1947 08 05 5 August 1947Colombo CeylonDied11 September 2020 2020 09 11 aged 73 BattingRight hand batBowlingRight arm mediumRoleBowlerInternational informationNational sideSri Lanka 1975 1979 ODI debut cap 6 7 June 1975 v West IndiesLast ODI16 June 1979 v IndiaCareer statisticsCompetition ODI FC LAMatches 5 39 20Runs scored 29 790 100Batting average 9 66 17 17 7 69100s 50s 0 0 0 3 0 0Top score 18 65 19Balls bowled 253 n a 1 092Wickets 5 111 21Bowling average 36 00 30 74 33 855 wickets in innings 0 2 010 wickets in match 0 0 0Best bowling 3 31 6 91 3 20Catches stumpings 3 24 8 Source ESPNcricinfo 24 December 2014Educated at St Peter s College Colombo he joined the Royal Ceylon Volunteer Air Force in 1968 He had played for his college cricket team and went on to play for the air force cricket team until 1977 He first played for Ceylon in 1971 and was a member of the Sri Lankan teams playing in the World Cups in England in 1975 and 1979 He later played club cricket in Ireland for one season in 1979 and was offered the post of coach of the Holland team 4 As player manager of the rebel tour to South Africa in 1982 83 in defiance of the sporting ban against the apartheid state he and the other tourists received a lifetime ban from international cricket 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 5 6 References Edit Former Sri Lanka seamer Tony Opatha dies aged 73 ESPN Cricinfo Retrieved 11 September 2020 Former Sri Lankan international Tony Opatha dies Emerging Cricket Retrieved 12 September 2020 Booth Lawrence 2021 Wisden Cricketers Almanack p 270 ISBN 9781472975478 Living Legends Tony Opatha The Nation Retrieved 14 May 2020 Sri Lanka Cricket to felicitate 49 past cricketers Sri Lanka Cricket Retrieved 5 September 2018 SLC launched the program to felicitate ex cricketers Sri Lanka Cricket Retrieved 5 September 2018 External links EditCricinfo article on Tony Opatha This biographical article related to a Sri Lankan cricket person born in the 1940s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tony Opatha amp oldid 1125163198, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
