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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
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The premier one-day final will be held at Pukekura Park next Saturday, with New Plymouth Old Boys and New Plymouth Marist United competing for the title. (file photo)
New Plymouth Old Boys (NPOB) will take on arch rivals New Plymouth Marist United (NPMU) in the Taranaki Cricket Premier grade final after each won their respective semifinals last weekend. Top qualifiers NPOB had a comfortable win against New Plymouth Boys’ High School (NPBHS). The school side was severely depleted with their usual First XI away playing in the Gillette Cup national finals, which meant they named a number of fringe First XI players along with some second XI players to fill the void and to their credit they put up decent fight.