Anguppulige Gamini Dayantha Wickremasinghe (born December 27, 1965,

Colombo Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...

), or Gamini Wickremasinghe, is a former

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

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er who played three

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and four

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between 1989 and 1993. He studied at

Nalanda College Colombo ''Āpadāna Sobhinī Panñā'' , motto_translation = Character Illumines Wisdom , established = , founder = Patrick de Silva Kularatne , type = National , grades = 1 ...

Selection committee

On 15 September 2017, Wickremasinghe was appointed as one of the selectors of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He along with former selector,

Asanka Gurusinha Deshabandu Asanka Pradeep Gurusinha (born 16 September 1966) is a Sri Lankan Australian former international cricketer who had an 11-year international career, playing 41 Tests and 147 One Day Internationals for Sri Lanka. He was a key member fo ...

and three new persons included former national team manager Jeryl Woutersz, and former domestic Sri Lankan cricketer,

Sajith Fernando Sajith Fernando (born 27 September 1972) is a Sri Lankan former first-class cricketer who played 193 matches between 1993 and 2012, scoring more than 10,000 runs. He is a former student of St. Anthony's College, Kandy St. Anthony' ...

was appointed to the committee with the chief selector

Graeme Labrooy Graeme Fredrick Labrooy ( si, ග්‍රැහැම් ලැබ්‍රෝයි; born June 7, 1964, in Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played in nine Tests and 44 ODIs from 1986 to 1992. He was the chairman of selectors for ...

References

Nelson Mendis - head coach of Nalanda

* Ananda-Nalanda

External links

Cricinfo article on Gamini Wickremasinghe
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