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Nishantha Chanaka ruggerite and coach par excellence Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
Some sportsmen are blessed with natural talent from birth in certain sporting disciplines. When they mature, they tend to move into various other sports with the influence of either their family or friends. Kalubowilage Don Nishantha Chanaka better known as ‘Alex’ was one of the indefatigable sportsmen who engaged in several sports and ended up as a quality rugby player representing school, club and country bringing honour and fame. to the country.
Alex was born in 1971 and his father Kalubowilage Don George Aloysius was a businessman and his mother was late Withanage Don Catherine a house wife. He had two younger brothers Shandika Tharanga an engineer by profession and Dhanushka Amaranath the other brother is a Naval officer while the sister Achala is a housewife. He started his primary and secondary education at St. Sebastians College, Enderamulla and later attended Ale