Sri Lanka national rugby union team

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Sri Lanka
Union	Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union
Ground(s)	Longden Place
Coach	Rob Yule[1]
Captain	Sajith Mallikarachchi
Team colours
First international
Thailand  18 - 18  Ceylon (13 January 1970)
Largest win
Pakistan  3 - 75  Sri Lanka (7 October 2004)
Worst defeat
Japan  129 - 6  Sri Lanka (8 October 2002)

The Sri Lanka national rugby union team represents Sri Lanka in international rugby union competitions. Sri Lanka have yet to make their debut at the Rugby World Cup, though they made it to Round 2 of the Asian qualifying competition for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France. The Sri Lanka rugby team performed above expectations during the qualifying campaign for the world cup, and saw its world ranking improve from 68th place to 43rd place, and its Asian ranking improve to fifth place.^[2]

The National 15 team, for Singer Rugby Asiad-2006

1.Shamil Mohamed

2. Jayantha Ranaweera

3.Nilan Ekanayake

4.Boteju

5. Jehan

6.Viraj Prasanna

7. A. Walpola

8. A.Dharmathileke

9. Senake Bandara

10.Savantha De Saram

11.Ravi Jayasooriya

12.Dilanka Wijesekara

13.S.Wijesinghe

14.Imran Bisthamir

15. Pavithra Fernando

16. Danushka .Perera

17. Delip Selvam

18. Dushanth Lewke

19. Amjad Buksh

20.Zulki Hameed

21.Fazil Marija

22.Asanga Rodrigo

23.Sajith Mallikarachchi

24.Chamara Vithanage

25. Mohamed Sheriff

26.Madeesha Silva

27.Sanjeewa Jayasinghe

28.Nalaka Weerakkody

29.Eranga Weerakkody

30.T.A.Silva

Officials :

Coach : Tavita Tulagaese

Sanjaya Fernando- Team Manager

member Kasun De Silva was banned for testing positive for cannabis[1] in an anti-doping scandal.

[edit] External links

• Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union official web site
• List and results of all IRB sanctioned international rugby games played by Sri Lanka
• [2]

[edit] References

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