Wannakuwatte Waduge Dinesh Nishantha Fernando is a Sri Lankan

carrom Carrom is a tabletop game of Indian origin in which players flick discs, attempting to knock them to the corners of the board. In South Asia, many clubs and cafés hold regular tournaments. Carrom is commonly played by families, including c ...

player and a former world number one carrom player. Fernanado was a National Carrom champion in Sri Lanka, who became a Carrom World champion in Men's singles event in 2012 by defeating C. Bharathi Dhasan of India 25–4, 25–10 in the finals. Fernando also became the first Sri Lankan to win Carrom World Championship title and a player to win the title from country except Indiaand the second Sri Lankan to win an individual World Championship title, following Mohammad Lafir, who won the Snooker World Championship title in 1973. Fernando was also the key member of the Sri Lankan carrom team which won the

2016 Carrom World Championship The 2016 Carrom World Championship, was the 7th edition of an international Carrom tournament governed by the International Kabaddi Federation, IInternational Carrom Federation, nternational Carrom Federation, contested from 7 to 11 November 2016 ...

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, the largest Carrom World Championship, with fifteen countries participating.

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Sinhalese people Sri Lankan carrom players {{Board-game-stub

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