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Centre Rajith Jayasundara played for Sri Lanka as a 17 year old-by Althaf Nawaz Rajith Jayasundara Source:Dailynews Some people who reach the pinnacle in sports are influenced by their family members. They follow the footsteps of them to end up as top class sportsmen in any sporting discipline, while excelling at school, club and National level. Rajith Jayasundara hails from a sports loving family especially his late father Daya Jayasundara was a well known sportsman during his hey days later ended up reaching great heights, serving in various capacities in the game of rugby starting as a player, coach and manager of the national team before his retirement as a Senior DIG of Sri Lanka Police. Rajith who is 35 years old is the son of Daya and Badra who was a teacher at Royal College, Colombo. He has two elder brothers Danushka and Pandula who played first XV rugby ...