Tony Opatha

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Tony Opatha
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Personal information
Full name
Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha
Born(1947-08-05)5 August 1947
Colombo, Ceylon
Died11 September 2020(2020-09-11) (aged 73)
Colombo, Sri Lanka
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleBowler
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 6)7 June 1975 v West Indies
Last ODI16 June 1979 v India
Career statistics
Competition ODI FC LA
Matches 5 39 20
Runs scored 29 790 100
Batting average 9.66 17.17 7.69
100s/50s 0/0 0/3 0/0
Top score 18 65 19
Balls bowled 253 6,548 1,092
Wickets 5 111 21
Bowling average 36.00 30.74 33.85
5 wickets in innings 0 2 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0
Best bowling 3/31 6/91 3/20
Catches/stumpings 3/– 24/– 8/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 24 December 2014

Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha (5 August 1947 – 11 September 2020) was a Sri Lankan cricketer.[1] A right-arm medium pace bowler, he played five One Day Internationals at the 1975 and 1979 Cricket World Cups.[2][3]

Educated at St. Peter's College, Colombo, Opatha joined the Royal Ceylon Volunteer Air Force in 1968. He had played for his college cricket team and went on to play for the air force cricket team until 1977. He first played for Ceylon in 1971 and was a member of the Sri Lankan teams in the World Cups in England in 1975 and 1979. He later played club cricket in Ireland for one season in 1979 (after having played for Denton West in 1977)[4] and was offered the post of coach of the Holland team.[5]

As player/manager of the rebel tour to South Africa in 1982–83 in defiance of the sporting ban against the apartheid state, Opatha and the other tourists received a lifetime ban from international cricket. The name of the team, "Arosa Sri Lankan XI", derived from Opatha's initials ARO plus SA for South Africa. The ban was lifted in 1991.[6]

Opatha was coach of the Netherlands women's national cricket team at the 1995 Women's European Cricket Cup in Ireland.[7]

In September 2018, Opatha 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).[8][9]

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