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Nilantha Ratnayake

Sri Lankan cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7036893 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nilantha Lakshitha Kithsiri Ratnayake (born 22 November 1968), or Nilantha Ratnayake, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played two One Day Internationals: one in March 1989 during a tour of Pakistan, and one in February 1990 as part of a Benson and Hedges World Series.

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“Nilantha Ratnayake” enters the record as sri Lankan cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nilantha, Ratnayake and Lankan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 1989, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-11-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nilantha, Ratnayake and Lankan.
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“Nilantha Ratnayake” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nilantha, Ratnayake and Lankan provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7036893. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968, 1989 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nilantha Ratnayake” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.