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Rankothge to blow at Jakarta

By Shamseer Jaleel

Former St. Sylvester’s College rugby player Aruna Rankothge will be officiating in this month’s HSBC Asian Five Nations Division III tournament in Jakarta, Indonesia from June 21-26.

Aruna Rankothge

Aruna Rankothge will be one of the referees along with Wen-Liang Chou (China) and Raimee Mohamed Mansur (Malaysia) being the other two officials.

Aruna is a member of the panel of Asian Rugby Football Union (ARFU) referees. Further he is carrying refereeing experience at under 20 Junior World Cup (IRB) qualifying matches in China (2004), Korea (2008) and Philippines (2009). He was also picked to officiate at the South East Asian rugby sevens tournament held in Thailand (2007).

He was given a promotion and did the big league at the Asians Five nation encounter between Arabian Gulf and Hong Kong in Dubai and India vs Kazakahstan encounter as an assistant referee.

Locally he has refereed several important International Sevens such as Singer Sri Lankan Rugby Sevens and last year’s Carlton Rugby Sevens. Aruna represented Kandy SC as a flanker in 1991.

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