Tharjini Sivalingam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Sri Lankan netball player
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Place of Birth: Punnalaikadduvan, Northern Province, Sri Lanka
About Tharjini Sivalingam
- Tharjini Sivalingam (born 30 December 1978) is a former Sri Lankan veteran netball player and former skipper of the Sri Lankan national netball team.
- She has been a regular member of Sri Lankan netball team in international netball tournaments since making her debut in 2009.
- She is known for her unusually tall height and considered as one of the marquee players in Sri Lankan netball history.
- She is often regarded as the tallest netball player in the world and she is the most capped international netball player to represent Sri Lanka.In July 2019, during the 2019 Netball World Cup Sivalingam made her 100th international appearance for Sri Lanka, becoming the first Sri Lankan to do so.
- She was the tournament's top-scorer with 348 goals (scored in seven matches), 44 clear of Jamaica's Jhaniele Fowler and also recorded the most number of points (77) by a player in a single match at the 2019 Vitality Netball World Cup.
- She was also the oldest player to play in the history of the Netball World Cup at the age of 40.
- After the tournament, she announced her retirement from international netball at the age of 40.
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