1. Edirimuni Chamika Dinushan Perera Karunaratne was born on 29 May 1996 and is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer who plays all three formats as well as a national badminton player.
22 Facts About Chamika Karunaratne
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Chamika Karunaratne made his international debut for the Sri Lanka cricket team in February 2019.
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Chamika Karunaratne pursued his primary and secondary education at Royal College, Colombo.
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Chamika Karunaratne went onto captain the athletics, badminton and cricket teams at Royal College.
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Chamika Karunaratne was adjudged with the coveted Royal Crown on two occasions for his outstanding achievements across multiple sports representing his school Royal College.
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Chamika Karunaratne began his school cricket career at Royal College in under 13C team way back in 2008.
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Chamika Karunaratne soon broke into the under 13A team at his school in the same year after emerging as the top runscorer among C division cricket teams.
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Chamika Karunaratne made his Test debut for Sri Lanka against Australia on 1 February 2019.
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Chamika Karunaratne made his ODI debut for Sri Lanka on 28 May 2021 against Bangladesh.
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Chamika Karunaratne made his Twenty20 International debut on 25 July 2021, for Sri Lanka against India.
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In September 2021, Karunaratne was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
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Chamika Karunaratne was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2022 Asia Cup.
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In September, Chamika Karunaratne was named in Sri Lanka's squad for the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
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Chamika Karunaratne was a junior national champion in javelin throw and competed in the international badminton.
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In February 2021, he along with his elder brother and Sri Lanka's number one badminton player Niluka Chamika Karunaratne played in the first round encounters in the men's singles of the Sri Lankan Badminton Nationals.
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In October 2022, nutritional brand Prima Stella Dairy announced that Chamika Karunaratne would act as its brand ambassador.
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Chamika Karunaratne was reported to have involved in an altercation and had heated exchanges with an outsider at a casino in Brisbane just hours before Sri Lanka's T20 World Cup match against Afghanistan.
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The report further highlighted that Chamika Karunaratne had even skipped training sessions just to meet and accommodate female companions at his hotel room during the middle of the ICC T20 World Cup showpiece in Australia.
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The report claimed that Chamika Karunaratne was more interested and focused on meeting the ladies of Sri Lankan origin who have been domiciled in Australia.
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Chamika Karunaratne was dropped from Sri Lankan squad for the home bilateral ODI series against Afghanistan due to his poor run of form in international cricket and his axing even raised eyebrows of many including the sports minister Roshan Ranasinghe who expressed his unhappiness and disappointment over the removal of Chamika Karunaratne from the ODI squad and he requested a report from SLC regarding the matter.
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The sports ministry delayed the approval of the national ODI squad for the series against touring Afghanistan mainly owing to Chamika Karunaratne's ousting from the team.
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However, Sunday Observer spotlighted that the rationale behind Chamika Karunaratne's axing is that he did not endorse and did not support the born-again cult.