Withanaarchchige Chamara Akalanka Ganegama (born 29 March 1981), generally known as Akalanka Ganegama is a former Sri Lankan international
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er, and currently a TV presenter, dancer and singer as well as an entrepreneur.
He played cricket as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who played in two
One Day International
A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...
s for
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 ...
and has also played Twenty20 and List A cricket. He played domestic cricket for
Nondescripts and currently for
Chilaw Marians.
Beyond cricket
Currently he is also working as an actor, and a dancer. He won "Sirasa Dancing Stars – season 2" competition held on 2008. He also sang a single song, named "Harima Hadai" with feat
Iraj and Clews.
Personal life
Akalanka was born to Shriyani and Thilak Ganegama at
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 ...
in 1981. He has a one elder sister.
And They divorced in 2018.
Filmography
References
1981 births
Living people
Alumni of Ananda College
Sri Lankan cricketers
Sri Lanka One Day International cricketers
Chilaw Marians Cricket Club cricketers
North Central Province cricketers
Kandurata cricketers
Nondescripts Cricket Club cricketers
Colombo Cricket Club cricketers
21st-century Sri Lankan male actors
Cricketers from Colombo
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