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3 unusual facts about Sri Lanka national rugby union team


Imran Bisthamin

Imran Bisthamin is a rugby player in Sri Lanka who played for Sri Lankan rugby team and Kandy Sports Club.

Rosemary Rogers

After spending three years at the University of Ceylon, Rogers became a reporter, and soon married Summa Navaratnam, a Ceylonese rugby player and track star (who played for Ceylon against the 1950 British Lions and who was known as "the fastest man in Asia").

Sri Lanka national rugby union team

The nation's first "national" match was on 12 September 1907 and involved an All Ceylon team against the professional All Blacks (the New Zealand rugby league team) under rugby union rules on their 1907–1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Australia and Great Britain.



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