Elilenthini Sethukavalar also spelled as Elilenthinie Sethukavalar also simply known as Elil Sethukavalar (born 4 April 1995) is a Sri Lankan netball player represents Sri Lankan netball team in international netball tournaments and also works as an employee at Citizens Development Business Finance.

Career

She started playing netball in 2013 and her height standing at 196 cm tall, caught the eyes of the selectors which helped her to storm into the national side in 2018. She also became the second player after

Tharjini Sivalingam Tharjini Sivalingam (born 30 December 1978) is a former Sri Lankan veteran netball player and former skipper of the Sri Lankan national netball team. With her staggering height of 206 cm or a fraction under 6 ft 9in, she has been reco ...

from Jaffna to represent Sri Lanka in international netball. Elilenthini made her international debut at the

2018 Asian Netball Championships The 2018 Asian Netball Championships is the 11th edition of the Asian Netball Championships was held in Singapore. The championships which was held at the OCBC Arena at the Singapore Sports Hub from September 1–9. In the final, Sri Lanka won t ...

and was a key member of the Sri Lankan contingent which emerged as champions during the tournament beating Singapore 69-50 in the final, which also marked Sri Lanka's first Asian Netball Championships triumph since 2009. She also represented Sri Lanka at the

2019 Netball World Cup The 2019 Netball World Cup (also known as the 2019 Vitality Netball World Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the INF Netball World Cup. It was held from 12–21 July 2019 at the Liverpool Arena in Liverpool, England with matche ...

, which was also her first World Cup tournament.

References

1995 births Living people Sri Lankan netball players People from Jaffna District 2019 Netball World Cup players Sri Lankan Tamil people {{SriLanka-netball-bio-stub