Find out the complete career history of Arjuna Ranatunga including highest scores, centuries, half centuries, wickets and more Arjuna Ranatunga was born on December 1, 1963, in a small town called Gampaha, twenty miles south-west of Colombo. He was the son of Ranatunga Sr. a well-known politician of the Sri Lankan Freedom ... Sri Lanka’s analytical skipper Arjuna Ranatunga was no philosopher, Buddhist monk, or mercenary, in the general, or accepted, sense. Yet, his psychology wasn’t perplexed, or too esoteric. It was straight and simple. It transcended fad, or phoniness, or strings of ‘seediness’ sometimes attached to his profession as captain. Arjuna Ranatunga is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and politician, who captained the 1996 World Cup winning team and served as the president of Sri Lanka Cricket. He is also a member of parliament and a cabinet minister, and has a long political career with various parties.
