| Sarath Wimalaratne | |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| Fullname: | Sarath Ransiri Wimalaratne |
| Birth Date: | 14 June 1942 |
| Birth Place: | Nawalapitiya, Ceylon |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm medium pace |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 10 |
| Runs1: | 220 |
| Bat Avg1: | 14.66 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 41 |
| Deliveries1: | 1366 |
| Wickets1: | 26 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 28.84 |
| Fivefor1: | 2 |
| Tenfor1: | 1 |
| Best Bowling1: | 5/32 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 9/– |
| Date: | 24 February 2017 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/player/49470.html CricketArchive |
Sarath Ransiri Wimalaratne (born 14 June 1942) is a former cricketer who played for Ceylon in the 1960s. He is now a physician in Sydney.
Wimalaratne attended Ananda College, where he captained the cricket team in 1962 and toured India with a Ceylon schools team. He then went to the University of Ceylon, where he studied medicine.[1]
He made his first-class debut in the Gopalan Trophy match in 1965–66, and was selected to tour Pakistan in 1966–67 with the Ceylon team. He played in all five first-class matches on the tour, including the three unofficial Tests against Pakistan.[1] Although primarily an opening bowler, he achieved more with the bat on the tour. In the first match against Pakistan, batting at number 11, he top-scored with 41 not out in the first innings,[2] while in the second match he opened the batting, scoring 28 and 27 and putting on 44 and 67 for the opening partnerships with Fitzroy Crozier, another bowler.[3]
In the Gopalan Trophy match in 1967–68, Wimalaratne captained the Ceylon team and took 5 for 32 and 5 for 36 in the victory over Madras.[4] He became disenchanted with cricket when he was not included in the team to make the planned tour of England in 1968; the tour was cancelled amid widespread dissatisfaction.[1]
Wimalaratne graduated in medicine from the University of Ceylon in 1971.[5] He went to live in New Zealand in 1972, doing his internship in Dunedin, then moved to Australia in 1975.[1] He lives in Sydney and practises as a GP in the suburb of North Strathfield.[5]
He and his first wife Eva, a doctor from Poland, had a son and a daughter. After their divorce he married his brother's widow Nelun, and they had a daughter. They also divorced, and he now lives with his partner Anne, who was born in the Philippines.[1]
In September 2018, Wimalaratne 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).[6] [7]