Birth Place Name Antony Marinon Batting style Right-hand bat | Role Bowler National team Sri Lanka Bowling style Right-arm medium | |
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Full Name Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha Born ( 1947-08-05 ) 5 August 1947 (age 77) |
Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha (born August 5, 1947, Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan ODI cricketer. A right-arm medium pace bowler, he played five One Day Internationals at the 1975 and 1979 Cricket World Cups.
As player/manager of the rebel tour to South Africa in 1982-83 in defiance of the sporting ban against the apartheid state, he and the other tourists received a lifetime ban from international cricket.
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