Elilenthini Sethukavalar

Elilenthini Sethukavalar also spelled as Elilenthinie Sethukavalar also simply known as Elil Sethukavalar (born 4 April 1995) is a Sri Lankan netball player represents Sri Lankan netball team in international netball tournaments and also works as an employee at Citizens Development Business Finance.[1][2]

Elilenthini Sethukavalar
Personal information
Born (1995-04-04) 4 April 1995
Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Occupation netball player, employee
Netball career
Playing position(s): goal keeper, goal shooter

Career

She started playing netball in 2013 and her height standing at 196 cm tall, caught the eyes of the selectors which helped her to storm into the national side in 2018.[3] She also became the second player after Tharjini Sivalingam from Jaffna to represent Sri Lanka in international netball.

Elilenthini made her international debut at the 2018 Asian Netball Championships and was a key member of the Sri Lankan contingent which emerged as champions during the tournament beating Singapore 69-50 in the final, which also marked Sri Lanka's first Asian Netball Championships triumph since 2009.[4][5] She also represented Sri Lanka at the 2019 Netball World Cup, which was also her first World Cup tournament.[6][7]

References
  1. "Elilenthini Sethukavalar". Netball World Cup. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  2. "Elilenthini Sethukavalar". Netball Draft Central. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  3. "Elil Sethukavalar: Ready to take on the Netballing World". The Sunday Times Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  4. "Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka wins Asian Netball Championship after 9 years". www.colombopage.com. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  5. hermesauto (2018-09-09). "Netball: Sri Lanka prove too strong for Singapore as they triumph 69-50 in Asian Championship final". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  6. "Sri Lanka pick netball squad for World Cup". Sunday Observer. 2019-05-18. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  7. "Sri Lanka". Netball Draft Central. Retrieved 2019-09-30.


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