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Dinesh the rugby star from Gampaha-by Althaf Nawaz Source:Dailynews Some of the past rugby players who reached the climax in their career hailed from schools which took to the game recently. Later they joined schools who are in the forefront of the game playing competitive rugby ending up as outstanding players. Dinesh Sanjeewa was one of them who launched his career from a school at his native place Gampaha later joined a Colombo school before he became a fully-fledged ruggerite to surge ahead to end up wearing the National jersey. Dinesh was born in 1983 in Gampaha district and had a a height of over six feet and a playing weight of 110 kgs. His father G. Lionel was an Electrical Foreman and mother is K.D. Malanee a housewife. He has two siblings with elder brother Nalin Chaminda and younger sister Ayanthi Anuradha. He started his schooling career from the ...