Vinuda Liyanage is a promising cricketer who represents St. Peter’s College with plenty of potential to go forward in his budding career.
He is considered a team man and has proved it on numerous occasions during the concluded senior inter-school season where he was able to rally his team-mates.
A modest and hardworking player, Liyanage is not afraid to speak about his upcoming challenges and will make no secret of what goes through his mind on the field or off the field.
He had the rare and amazing achievement of taking four wickets in four balls during a match against St. Benedict’s College and was adjudged the best bowler at the 84th Battle of the Saints encounter against arch rival St. Joseph’s College. He is currently enrolled playing first class cricket at the Burgher Recreation Club (BRC).
Excerpts of an interview with the Sunday Observer:
Q: Describe yourself in one word
I am someone who never gives up and works hard for everything
Q: Any words or phrases you overuse?
Believe yourself
Q: What is your most marked characteristic?
Working hard for success
Q: If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Nothing to change
Q: What is the most important thing in your life?
My family and cricket
Q: Who or what has influenced you the most?
My family
Q: Are you fashionable?
No
Q: If you had access to a time machine what would you change?
Nothing to change
Q: What motivates you in your life?
Cricket
Q: If you could choose any career right now, what would it be?
Professional cricketer
Q: What forms of music do you listen to?
2000s classical music
Q: What’s the best thing you would like to hear from someone?
That I am a humble and friendly person
Q. What made you to choose sports?
I use to play soft ball cricket with my friends and brothers in my childhood. So I had a passion for the game from my small days
Q. Thus far what was your most unforgettable sporting incident?
Being appointed the vice captain of St. Peter’s College in the 2020/2021 season
Q. What’s your best school sporting achievement?
Awarded the best bowler at the 84th battle of the saints and taking four wickets in four balls against St. Benedict’s College
Q: What is your idea of happiness?
Spending time with my loved ones
Q: What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Not giving the right place to the right person and seeing that people who require help do not receive any
Q: What has been your biggest disappointment?
Thus far nothing
Q: Most important lesson life has taught you?
Never give up and believe in what you can do and wait for the right time