Bhanuka Rajapaksa Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Bhanuka Rajapaksa

• Bhanuka Rajapaksa is an expert Sri Lankan cricketer, who performs restricted over internationals for the Sri Lanka nationwide cricket workforce.

• In childhood, Rajapaksa was a proficient swimmer, however he needed to give up the water sport because of a life-threatening sickness. Recalling how he began enjoying cricket, he mentioned,
  

  I used to be down with meningitis, a mind effecting illness and docs suggested me to not dive. So I took as much as cricket.”

• Bhanuka started enjoying cricket in his college days representing the Royal College, Colombo.

• After enjoying for his college workforce, Bhanuka made his T20 and List A debut in 2009 representing the Schools Invitation XI and Sinhalese Sports Club respectively, and later, he superior into Sri Lanka’s U-19 workforce.

• During the 2009 Sri Lanka Under-19s tour of Australia, he ended up because the main run-scorer of the sequence amassing 154 runs in 111 balls within the second ODI.

• Rajapaksa was chosen for the 2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. A key batsman within the event, he emerged because the main run-scorer for Sri Lanka within the event with 253 runs.

• He was additionally the primary Sri Lankan U19 participant to garner 1000 Youth ODI runs.

• Since he made his first-class debut for the Sinhalese Sports Club in 2011, Bhanuka has been a constant performer in Sri Lanka’s home circuit.

• In 2011, he turned the fourth particular person to turn out to be the Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year twice.

• In August 2018, he was named to Kandy’s squad for the 2018 SLC T20 League. In the event, Colombo and Kandy completed as a tie within the third match, subsequently going to a Super Over to find out the winner. When the match once more tied after the Super Over, Colombo was declared the eventual winner, because the workforce had scored probably the most boundaries.

• From May 2018 to June 2018, he represented Galle’s squad within the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament. Galle gained the event, after beating Colombo by 75 runs within the ultimate.

• He represented Dambulla’s squad for the 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.

• Bhanuka is said to Mahinda Rajapaksa, former President of Sri Lanka, who began serving because the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 2019. Although Mahinda Rajapaksa’s reference might have helped Bhanuka to interrupt into the nationwide workforce, Bhanuka needed to look ahead to ten years after his home debut in 2009 to signify Sri Lanka. While talking of his struggles, the left-hander in an interview mentioned,
  

  About the challenges, you identify it, I’ve been by means of every thing by means of the interval of 9-10 years. It took me nearly 10 years to get into the aspect. It was actually tough. For 9 years it was not straightforward. Mentally, I used to be very low. Sometimes, I used to be very down. I wouldn’t say depressed however there have been moments once I didn’t need to proceed enjoying cricket.”

• In 2019, he made his debut for Sri Lanka with a 3-match T20I sequence in Pakistan, primarily to fill the absence of prime gamers who had refused to journey to Pakistan citing safety points. The sequence was gained by Sri Lanka, and Bhanuka struck stardom together with his big-hitting prowess within the sequence turning into “Player of the match” within the second T20I during which he scored 77 runs off 48 balls.

• In the 2020 Lanka Premier League (LPL), he was part of the workforce Galle Gladiators.

• For the 2021 SLC Invitational T20 League, he represented the SLC Greys workforce, which gained the event beating SLC Reds by 42 runs.

• In July 2021, Bhanuka made his ODI debut after he was named in Sri Lanka’s squad when the Indian cricket workforce toured Sri Lanka to play three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. While India gained the ODI sequence, Sri Lanka gained a T20I sequence; it was the primary time that Sri Lanka had gained a T20I sequence towards India.

• In September 2021, Rajapaksa was named to Sri Lanka’s squad for the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

• In the 2021 Lanka Premier League, held between 5 to 23 December, he performed for the workforce Galle Gladiators, which was defeated by Jaffna Kings by a margin of 23 runs within the ultimate.

• Bhanuka Rajapaksa was signed by the Punjab Kings franchise cricket workforce for Rs 50 lakhs on the IPL 2022 mega-auction.

• On 27 March 2022, he made his IPL debut in a match towards Royal Challengers Bangalore at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai.

• Other sports activities that he’s fond of are squash and swimming.

• At the age of 30, Rajapaksa introduced his worldwide retirement through a letter written to the SLC. He mentioned that the choice to resign was taken after contemplating his family obligations. The letter learn,
  

  I’ve very fastidiously thought-about my place as a participant, husband and am taking this choice trying ahead to fatherhood and related familial obligations.”

  However, on 13 January 2022, he withdrew his retirement letter on the request of the sports activities minister.

• He is an avid animal lover and has many canines which embrace, Alvin, Brandie, Mocha, Riley, Theodore, and Abbie.
  

  Bhanuka Rajapaksa together with his spouse, Sandrine Pereira, and canines

• Referring to Virat Kohli because the Cristiano Ronaldo of cricket, Bhanuka Rajapaksa revealed that he was eager to acquire health steering from him in an interview.

• In 2022, he turned the ambassador of Chariot Sri Lanka, a famend restaurant chain within the Sri Lankan meals trade, for the then-upcoming IPL.

• He has two automobiles, Toyota Land Cruiser and Subaru STI.
  

  Bhanuka Rajapaksa’s automobiles

• In an interview, whereas speaking about his health, he mentioned,
  

  The health journey has been fairly tough. It’s not my health out on the sphere. It’s simply my skinfolds. I’ve been on the chubby aspect from my college days, once I received a repute for having sweets.”

• After Mickey Arthur lashed out at Bhanuka because of his under-par health degree, Bhanuka employed the non-public coach Nigel Aaron.
  

  Bhanuka together with his private coach Nigel Aaron

• In a 2014 Facebook put up, Bhanuka Rajapaksa revealed that he had give up consuming.
  

  Bhanuka Rajapaksa’s Facebook put up