Nigel Ratwatte (born 30 April 1990) is a Sri Lankan

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player who is the current captain of Kandy SC in Dialog Rugby League. He has represented

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in both Rugby 7s and 15s. His usual position is Full-back but due to his versatility, he often covers Fly-Half and

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Biography

Ratwatte began his education at

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Kandy Kandy ( si, මහනුවර ''Mahanuwara'', ; ta, கண்டி Kandy, ) is a major city in Sri Lanka located in the Central Province. It was the last capital of the ancient kings' era of Sri Lanka. The city lies in the midst of hills ...

, Sri Lanka, where he captained the school's under-13 team. At the age of thirteen his family moved to

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, where he played competitive rugby at St. Nicholas' Grammar School and at the Black River Rugby Club. In 2007 he was selected to represent the national under-18 team during a tour of Madagascar. At eighteen he was selected to play for the

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, becoming the first Sri Lankan national to play for a foreign national rugby team. Ratwatte completed his schooling in South Africa at the King Edward VII School in

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. He was successful in completing the Matrix Examination which is equivalent to the Sri Lanka's Advanced Level Exam. In 2009 Ratwatte played for the Division 'A' rugby union team, Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club in the Sri Lankan Rugby League competition before transferring to the Up Country Lions in 2012 Following the demise of the Up Country Lions he signed with Kandy SC. In 2012 he made his international debut with the Sri Lankan national rugby sevens team, competing at the HSBC Asian Sevens tournament. He played his first game with the

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in March 2014 against

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ratwatte, Nigel 1990 births Living people Sri Lankan rugby union players Asian Games competitors for Sri Lanka Rugby union players at the 2014 Asian Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Sri Lanka Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Mauritian people of Sri Lankan descent Rugby union fullbacks Rugby union players from Kandy Alumni of Trinity College, Kandy Alumni of King Edward VII School (Johannesburg) 21st-century Sri Lankan people

Biography

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