Photo via Facebook.
Yesterday Ramith Rambukwella of the Sri Lanka Cricket A Team (just below national) tried, for a good few minutes, to open the emergency door on a British Airways flight, thinking it was the bathroom. According to managers he was confused by the dim light. And being completely wasted. Young Rambukwella is also Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella’s son. The younger Rambukwella was previously in the news in 2008 while at Royal College, that time for assaulting a student and breaking into the school to destroy relevant files. At the time his dad tried to pressure the principal to let his son off easy.
Ministerial brats are now pervading sports from cricket to rugby, with the President’s own son Rohitha slapping a referee in the latter. While the Presidential kids are generally much better behaved, there’s a whole class of sons of privilege that act like entitled hooligans. So long as they can behave they have just as much right to play sports as anyone else, but when local immunity runs up against international facing things like sports, the country looks ridiculous.
Getting wasted on a plane is bad in itself, but getting wasted while representing your country in sport is reprehensible. Trying to open the plane door at 35,000 feet (which is impossible) and thinking that it was the bathroom (which is highly implausible) is something else altogether.
On FB someone suggested that he’s more used to outdoor plumbing, hence the attempt to go out for a pee.
does British air lines have air marshals?
Sri Lankans tend to hero worship their cricketers. Most of the Sri Lankan cricket team get drunk on tours – nothing new.
He should apply cold water to the burn area.
Not everyone try to open plane doors. This one is definitely new.
Indi,
“While the Presidential kids are generally much better behaved” ???????
Really? let me guess, in your rise to fame you ve met them and now they are your bosom machangs. Therefore the little disclaimer lest you piss them off
Now tell me which part of slapping a referee, wasting 100s of millions in an ill-fated, ill-conceived grand party to win the commonwealth games, stealing rights to telecast cricket depriving the sport of 100 of billions, etc etc qualifies for better behavior?
Dude, keep your feet on the ground!
It could possibly have been a genuine mistake, made in a drunken state.
How he got selected is the bigger question.
Doesn’t it run in the family? Didn’t the father step out of a hotel room balcony or something recently and break some bones?
fell from a 3rd story hotel balcony.
He is somewhat talented from what i know. Biggest problem is that this is not the first time he caused an scandal.
The story was that better players were overlooked.
http://linesongrass.com/2013/04/02/ramith-rambukwellas-strange-selection/
http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v-bangladesh-2013/content/story/627269.html
When the Daily News rises to the defence we know for sure:
http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/07/08/spo18.asp
As for the century in the Royal-Thomian – just ask a few Royalists how that was achieved.
I wasn’t really speaking about this particular selection. My concern is (whatever his talent is) about the contentious scandals.
He is somewhat talented just like any other cricketer representing his school’s 1st XI team but definitely not Sri Lanka A team material. The century at the Royal Thomian was achieved because the Thomians were shit that year.
The umpires were showing a strange reluctance to give him out, accordingto the gossip at the match.