Manohari Nisansala fine cricketer, athlete and spiker from Wadduwa Central

Wadduwa Central College Under 19 Girls Cricket team 2020 played a Big Match versus Marapola Central Minuwangoda and Wadduwa Girls Team posed for a photograph after the match with the officials. (Picture by Dilwin Mendis Moratuwa Sports Special Correspondent)

Right hand middle order bat, medium pace bowler and safe fielder, School and Provincial colours holder, Sri Lanka under 21 cricket development squad member athlete and volleyball player Manohari Nisansala Jayasinghe has brought honour and glory to her school Wadduwa Central College with her deeds in the field of sports.

Manohari was born on 6 th August 2001 and her first school was Balika Vidyalaya Wadduwa and admitted to this school in 2007 and her first class teacher was Mrs. Wimalawathie. As an under 11 girl she participated in the school inter house sports meet and she was in Grade 6 and came second in the 100 and 200 metres and her house team won the 4×100 relay event and in the under 13 age group she participated for the school meet and won places and in 2014 she came second in Putt Shot and third in 200 metres and won the Discus event.

Then in the following year she did a Marathon and came second and in her last year in under 15 she won the discus and the putt shot . In addition to athletics she played for the inter house volleyball team and later for the school team and in 2016 she was the under 15 captain and participated at the Zonal Tournament but could not come up to expectations.

Then her school participated in the inter school cricket tournament in 2016 and she performed well and her parents Manjula Upul Prasantha and Kumari Fernando noticing her talent in cricket made arrangements to admit her to Wadduwa Central College in 2017 and she was an unanimous choice for the under 19 team and played in few matches and played the Big Match against Mahanama College Panadura and her coach is Danushka Perera. In the following year too she played in six school matches and in this instance they played versus Marapola Vidyalaya in Minuwangoda as their Big Match and her teacher in Charge were Mrs. Anusha Weeramanthri, Mrs. Gayathri de Silva and Mrs. Pavithra de Silva and in 2020 they came up to Singer Finals against Devapathiraja College Rathgama and lost and she received school and Provincial cricket colours. Then in 2021 they came up to semi finals in the Singer Tournament and lost to Rathnavali Balika Gampaha. With these performances under her belt she was selected to the Sri Lanka under 21 Development Cricket Squad and in the meantime her father left the shores and her uncle N. S. Navarathne is supporting her cricket.