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Rugby player
Imran Bisthamin
Birth nameImran Bisthamin
Date of birth1985
Place of birthKandy, Sri Lanka
Rugby union career
Position(s) Number 8
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2004-2008 Kandy Sports Club ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2007-2008 Sri_Lanka
National sevens team
Years Team Comps
2008  Sri Lanka

Imran Bisthamin is a rugby union footballer in Sri Lanka who played for Sri Lanka, and Kandy Sports Club. He is a product of St. Anthony's College, Kandy, where he captained the college rugby team.

Bistamin played at Number 8 third-row-forward. Bisthamin represented the country at the Asian Rugby tournament in 2007.

Injury

On November 22, 2008, Bisthamin faced career-threatening injuries to the head and spinal cord when he fell from an upper floor of a restaurant at the George R de Silva Shopping Complex in Kandy. He was unconscious and rushed to the Kandy General Hospital and treated in the intensive-care unit for Brain haemorrhage. He regained consciousness after three weeks.

Controversy

On 2008, the exclusion of Bistamin from the Sri Lanka National Rugby Team ahead of Asian Five Nation Rugby Championship in Taiwan created a controversy with the second set of selectors led by Rohan Abeykoon protesting against the nepotistic move by Minister of Sports at that time, Gamini Lokuge.

See also

References

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