I don't understand Sinhala since I'm Indian but I really appreciate the genius leadership of this man. People talk a lot about Border being a broad chested, bold captain but Ranatunga did it with a smaller, less fancied and untapped team. He took Sri Lanka from being just a competitor to being World champions and best cricketing team in the world from 1995-98. Fearless and ahead of his time, he shaped the careers of Sanath Jayasuriya, Muralidaran, Mahela, Roshan Mahanama, Chaminda Vaas etc.
Arjuna's impact on Sri Lankan cricket is incredible and inspiring. Respect! My favorite stories from the many above were 1. On how Sobers helped him early on in his Test career and 2. On the one with Aravinda de Silva and the Sony Walkman :)
Huge respect towards you Mr Ranathunga you are under appreciated by sri lankan people. In my opinion you are the best captain and leader of all time. Miss the golden days
What a leader. Every single word that he spoke is a lesson. I cried a few times listening to this interview as some of the stories I heard it for the first time. Every time he addresses former sports minister, he calls him Gamini Dissanayake Mahatthaya. This gives me goosebumps and it is enough for me to learn and picture how he respects others and Sri Lanka. There are so much Sri Lanka can gain from this legend and, unfortunately, we are so unlucky to take the advantages.
Lessons on leadership throughout the interview. Easily the best captain we ever had. Money destroyed the spirit of cricket as you rightly said and SL cricket will never rise again. Thank you for the memories captain cool!
What a beautiful speech and the things we did not know about Arjuna needs to be known. Watch this Video and specially the last 15 minutes which makes me respect Arjuna for sharing the moneys paid to them. Hope all our people continue this trend.
Here is my two cents on Captain Cool. Undoubtedly, he's the bedrock of SL cricket. He wanted SL Cricket to be played under his supervision at all times; in other words he wanted to be the "God Father" and lay the upper hand on SLC as he was instrumental in drawing great amount of international attention from all over the world after winning the WC. It didn't go as planned. He believed he has all the rights in the world to take control of SLC any given day. Because, this gentleman knows what he's done to bring Cricket to where it was from. However,trying to be the sole proprietor of SLC was a bad move made by him and he went to war against corrupt giants of SLC as one man army. Not to mention, SL Cricket will always be in debt to him no matter what he brings to the SLC table.
Looks like the dads, grandads & uncles of Gehan Blok & Dino, were running the SSC back then. Hats off to Arjuna, for giving opportunities to youngsters based on their talent, rather than what language they speak or what school they went to. Sri Lankan Cricket wouldn't have flourished otherwise.
Yes.. I still remember when there was a test match, cricket board called back Lasith Malinga from IPL, he came and said I'm retiring and send my back to play IPL. if cricket board would have sacked him from that point, our cricket would have been learned.
Yes...those days we had well educated and very intelligent people who loved the country from the bottom of their heart as politicians...hence our country was in a proper position compared to these days...but now days all of them are uneducated crooks and thugs who just talk to the gallery and deep inside are corrupted...their key weapon is racism and nationalism...they win elections by spreading hate within races and religion...very sad! All we need right now is people like D.S. Senanayaka, Gamini Disanayaka, Lalth Athulathmudali
Love & Respect Ranatunga Sir, As One Of The Leading Captains of the Century! Down To Earth & A Game Changer In The Making Of Sri Lank's Fierce Entries In The 90's. Not only was the world fearful of its crazy roaring batting line up, their bowlers were equally if not that terrifying. I would have sleepless nights before the SL Vs India games, whilst I would get dreams of Muraleedharan's eyes popping out to hit wickets faster than his deliveries, while Jayasuriya making a mockery of, with a 'i care a damn f#@*' signal to go after every bowler of that decade, and Aravinda De'Silva was what Rahul Dravid Was To India, The Wall 🙏🏾 More Importantly, All Were A Soft Spoken Lot!
I always had a doubt why this man is poor in politics. Now I realize Sir Arjuna Ranathunga you too good to be a politician. May live long You are the living God of SLC!
1996 World Cup is the amazing world cup, people think group matches srilankan explosive batting not work in knock outs matches, the world never thought srilanka get the 96 world cup, in group stage before India srilanka matches most people think INDIA easily win, world thinks may be south africa get the world cup or west indies, Australia.... India like that, THIS WORLD CUP IS THE MOST POPULAR AND THRILLING WORLD CUP, BECAUSE SRILANKANS INTRODUCED A NEW REVOLUTION AND THEY WIN, GREAT WORLD CUP MEMORIES.
I made several comments regarding him. Actually we still didn't appreciate his leadership. My proposal was we must construct cricket stadium for the name of Arjuna.
Respect from India to the master captain Arjuna Ranatunga. I had been to Sri Lanka sometime back and the first thing I was searching for was Arjuna's floppy hat haha
Arjuna should be heading the Junior cricket in Sri Lanka. His cricket brain is tapped and was never sadly used by the cricket board . Its time theh utilised his smarts.
To producer - Is this a radio program.මේක රේඩියෝ වැඩසටහනක් ද. Where are the library footage.කෝ මේ කියන දේවල් වලට අදාල රූප. Very interesting prog. You have spoiled it. අපරාදෙ ලස්සනට කරන්න තිබුන වැඩසටහනක් .මොකද පපරේ ගාව library footage නැතුවද
විශිෂ්ටතම නිර්භීතම නායකයා...❤️
අද ක්‍රිකට් වලට මෙතුමාගේ සේවය අහිමි වෙලා..
I don't understand Sinhala since I'm Indian but I really appreciate the genius leadership of this man. People talk a lot about Border being a broad chested, bold captain but Ranatunga did it with a smaller, less fancied and untapped team. He took Sri Lanka from being just a competitor to being World champions and best cricketing team in the world from 1995-98.
Fearless and ahead of his time, he shaped the careers of Sanath Jayasuriya, Muralidaran, Mahela, Roshan Mahanama, Chaminda Vaas etc.
Captions are available in English. Thanks so much for your love and interest
ආදී ආනන්දීයයෙක් විදියට මගේ පාසල් කාලයේ ක්‍රිකට් වීරය අර්ජුන. පාසලේ ශිෂ්‍යයෙක්ව සිටියදීම ශ්‍රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායමට ඇතුල් වීම පමණක් නොව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සෙල්ලම් කල පළමු ටෙස්ට් තරගයට සහභාගී වන්නට වරම් හිමි කර ගත්තා. ඒ විතරක් නොවෙයි ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වෙනුවෙන් ක්‍රීඩකයෙක් ලබාගත් පළමු අර්ධ ශතකය ගහන්නෙත් අර්ජුන, පාසල් ක්රීඩකයෙක්ව ඉඳිමින් (පළමු ටෙස්ට් එකේ). ඔහු ගැන අනාගතය දැක්කේ ගාමිණි දිසානායක මහත්මයා ට පින් සිදුවන්නට.
හරිම රසවත් කතාබහක්.සෘජු තීරණ ගත් එකම නායකත්වය.අපේ ක්‍රිකට් නගා සිටුවීමට ඔවුන්ගේ සේවය අවැසි කාලයයි.100;% Legends
This interview itself is a lecture on leadership. Great Captain.
Couldn't agree more. True leadership...
අපේ කැප්ටන් කූල් 🇱🇰 සිංහය අවංක එඩිතර නිහතමානී අව්‍යාජ චරිතයක් ලොවෙත් නෑ මේ වගේ නායකයෙක් ආයි දකින්න වෙන්නෙ නෑ ☝👌💖👌
දේෂපාලනයෙන් තොරව ..ඔහු ඇත්තටම Captain cool .
Yes
ඔබතුමා අපාරදේ දේහපාලනයට ගියේ.
ඔහු ක්‍රීඩාවෙත්
දේශපාලනයේදීත්
විශිෂ්ටයෙක්!!!
දේශපාලනයේදී පීචන් උනා..ඔහුට ඒක කලේ ඔහුට ආදරේ කරන එක පක්ශෙක ක්‍රීඩා ලෝලීන්
විසිවන සියවසේ ලංකාව බිහිකල විශිෂ්ඨයින් 05 අයෙක්.
(විමලසුරේන්ද්‍ර කුලසිංහ වෛද්‍ය හඩ්සන් අර්ජුන කන්නංගර)
දේශපාලනයේදීත් අංගයන්ට යුතුඅයෙක්
ගර්භිත දුම්රිය මැදිරි, බස්රථ අලුත්වැඩියාව අගය කරමි.කොළඹ- කොට්ටාව ද්විත්ව මාර්ග දුම්රිය, මරදාන ත්‍රිත්ව මාර්ගය නැවත පැමිණ ඉදිකරන්න.
බස්නාහිර මහ නගර ප්‍රවාහනය වෙනුවෙන් වෙන්කළ බස්රථ වලින් කිහිපයක් දැන් අධිවේගී මාර්ගයේ දුවනවා.
Ohu baharaganna onnama deyak
Hariyata karana pudgalayek💪💯💖💘💝👑🏆🏏🇱🇰👍🧠🙏🏼🦁
Thank u Rex and team for bringing the greatest captain of SL cricket to the show..
Arjuna's impact on Sri Lankan cricket is incredible and inspiring. Respect! My favorite stories from the many above were 1. On how Sobers helped him early on in his Test career and 2. On the one with Aravinda de Silva and the Sony Walkman :)
අර්ජුන කියන්නේ එක්කෙනයි අය දෙන්නෙක් බිහි වෙන්නේ නැ ලංකාවේ ලෝක සුරයෙක්
Huge respect towards you Mr Ranathunga you are under appreciated by sri lankan people. In my opinion you are the best captain and leader of all time. Miss the golden days
ලංකාවේ බිහිවු විශිෂ්ටතම නායකයා.❤
What a leader. Every single word that he spoke is a lesson. I cried a few times listening to this interview as some of the stories I heard it for the first time. Every time he addresses former sports minister, he calls him Gamini Dissanayake Mahatthaya. This gives me goosebumps and it is enough for me to learn and picture how he respects others and Sri Lanka. There are so much Sri Lanka can gain from this legend and, unfortunately, we are so unlucky to take the advantages.
Arjuna ayya you are a national treasure, you have brought pride, character and Honor to Sri Lanka. Utmost respect to you sir.
Lion heart ...father of Sri Lanken cricket ...thanks..you make our childhood great ...❤️❤️❤️
Such a special interview. Thank you!
වේලාවට දික්වැල්ල හිටියේ නැත්තේ ඒ කාලේ හිටියා නම් අර්ජුනගෙන් තාම ගුටී කනවා...
ඇයි ගුණතිලක ??
😂😂😂
උබල වගෙ ගොන්නු නිසයි දැනටම කෙලවෙලා තියෙන්නෙ
@@pardeepchandana9318 kurusa vitarai wada na
Lessons on leadership throughout the interview. Easily the best captain we ever had. Money destroyed the spirit of cricket as you rightly said and SL cricket will never rise again. Thank you for the memories captain cool!
What a beautiful speech and the things we did not know about Arjuna needs to be known. Watch this Video and specially the last 15 minutes which makes me respect Arjuna for sharing the moneys paid to them. Hope all our people continue this trend.
I love him
The Greatest Captain in cricket history
What a feisty Captain and player! The way he led his team in 1996 was simply unforgettable. Love from India!
වෙලාවකට හිතෙනවා දෝනි ඉගන ගත්තේ අරජුන ගෙන් බලලද කියලා. ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රීඩාවේ එදා මෙදා තුර වැඩිපුරම ගරු කරන පුද්ගලයා මොහුය්.
Ow
aniwa mcn... me wage captainla aye bihi wen nathi wei....
@@pathumperera8052 cricket වෙනස් වෙලා නේ, සල්ලි වලට සෙල්ලම් කරන නිසා ලංකාවටත් ඒ අයුරින් වෙනස් වෙන්න වෙයි.
Dhoni irena gaththeth arjunanagen
what a thought bro. yes i think so too!
We love him so much ❤️🇱🇰🇱🇰
Excellent interview with lot of facts and truth about rise and fall of Sri Lanka's cricket.
Hope to see a film based on his story one day :-)
Interesting and inevitable too . ❤️👋🏼👋🏼
Learned a lot of background stuff, about Sri Lankan cricket. Proud of you Arjuna.
The temperament of a bulldog combined with the strategic capabilities of Alexander the Great - We miss you cap
Here is my two cents on Captain Cool. Undoubtedly, he's the bedrock of SL cricket. He wanted SL Cricket to be played under his supervision at all times; in other words he wanted to be the "God Father" and lay the upper hand on SLC as he was instrumental in drawing great amount of international attention from all over the world after winning the WC. It didn't go as planned. He believed he has all the rights in the world to take control of SLC any given day. Because, this gentleman knows what he's done to bring Cricket to where it was from. However,trying to be the sole proprietor of SLC was a bad move made by him and he went to war against corrupt giants of SLC as one man army. Not to mention, SL Cricket will always be in debt to him no matter what he brings to the SLC table.
Excellent interview by Rex clementine to senior crickerter and srilankan captain cool Mr.Arjuna Ranathunga. අාදි ක්‍රිකට් සහ ඔහුගේ ක්‍රීඩා කාල වකවානුවේදී සිදුවූ රසවත් මතක සටහන් ඉතා වටිනා බව කිව යුතුයි.😊
Looks like the dads, grandads & uncles of Gehan Blok & Dino, were running the SSC back then.
Hats off to Arjuna, for giving opportunities to youngsters based on their talent, rather than what language they speak or what school they went to. Sri Lankan Cricket wouldn't have flourished otherwise.
Greatest Sri Lankan Captain Ever!
Yes.. I still remember when there was a test match, cricket board called back Lasith Malinga from IPL, he came and said I'm retiring and send my back to play IPL. if cricket board would have sacked him from that point, our cricket would have been learned.
Mahela and sanga it was appeoved
We are proud of you and appreciate your service to SL Cricket ! Much Respect !!
ගත හැකි පාඩම් ගොඩයි ...විශිෂ්ට නායකයෙක් ❤❤ කන්ඩායම, ක්‍රීඩාව සහ රට ගැන හැගීම උපරිමයෙන් තියෙන කෙනෙක් ක්‍රිඩකයෙක් විදිහට ..❤❤
ක්‍රිඩකයෝ ගෙනත් ගෙවල් වල තියන් කන්න බොන්න දීමෙන් පෙන්වුවෙ මනුස්සකම.👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Its glad to see you arjuna and nice to hear past cricket
Best captain ever!
29:25 ☹️, kind of leadership the country has lost! Can't imagine a standing ovation to any politician of the modern day.
Yes...those days we had well educated and very intelligent people who loved the country from the bottom of their heart as politicians...hence our country was in a proper position compared to these days...but now days all of them are uneducated crooks and thugs who just talk to the gallery and deep inside are corrupted...their key weapon is racism and nationalism...they win elections by spreading hate within races and religion...very sad! All we need right now is people like D.S. Senanayaka, Gamini Disanayaka, Lalth Athulathmudali
Great interview. Thanks, Rex.
Love & Respect Ranatunga Sir, As One Of The Leading Captains of the Century! Down To Earth & A Game Changer In The Making Of Sri Lank's Fierce Entries In The 90's. Not only was the world fearful of its crazy roaring batting line up, their bowlers were equally if not that terrifying. I would have sleepless nights before the SL Vs India games, whilst I would get dreams of Muraleedharan's eyes popping out to hit wickets faster than his deliveries, while Jayasuriya making a mockery of, with a 'i care a damn f#@*' signal to go after every bowler of that decade, and Aravinda De'Silva was what Rahul Dravid Was To India, The Wall 🙏🏾 More Importantly, All Were A Soft Spoken Lot!
අර්ජුන අයියා ඇත්තෙන්ම කතා කිරීමට වචන නෑ!!
ඉදිරි අනාගතයේදී අනිවාර්යෙන්ම ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රීඩාවට ඔබගේ මග පෙන්වීම බෙහෙවින්ම අත්‍යාවශ්‍යයි...
"THOUSAND SALUTE"
Great leader. Not only for cricket but also for the mother land
A GREAD MAN WITH A GOLDEN HEART.I SALUTE YOUR GREAD WORK AND LORD PROTECT HIM. GODAK ADARAYA KARANA CHARETHAYAK.
Sir. Arjuna ranathunga.
Great cricketer in the world 🇱🇰💪
Much awaited to see our great legend ..
විශිෂ්ට නායකයෙක්...අර්ජුන ගේ පලවන මැච් එකේ සිට අවසන් එක දක්වාම මම නරඹා ඇත...ඒ නිසයි එහෙම කියන්නේ..
The greatest captain of SL cricket , Thank you Sir for setting an example of leadership.❤
Ranatunga was a genius 👏. Respect from Pakistan 🇵🇰.
He is the first and only player who played the first test match of a country as well as the 100th test match of that country.
දෙශපාලනයෙන් තොර මට ඔබ සොදුරැ මිනිසෙක්
මේවගේ අය තමයි දේශපාලනේ ඉන්න ඕනේ... රටට සහ මිනිස්සුන්ට ආදරේ මිනිසෙක්...
also good leadership qualities...
@@dineshperera7726අැත්ත..
I always had a doubt why this man is poor in politics. Now I realize Sir Arjuna Ranathunga you too good to be a politician. May live long You are the living God of SLC!
Don’t tough any dirty of politics in your hands ,; you will have a great future.: most Srilankans love you.
Hai Arjuna Rantunga
You was the Best Cricket Captain of the World Budu Saranai, God Bless
Living Legends 👍❤️
This man made Sri lankan cricket
💙🇱🇰💙 🙏
1996 World Cup is the amazing world cup, people think group matches srilankan explosive batting not work in knock outs matches, the world never thought srilanka get the 96 world cup, in group stage before India srilanka matches most people think INDIA easily win, world thinks may be south africa get the world cup or west indies, Australia.... India like that, THIS WORLD CUP IS THE MOST POPULAR AND THRILLING WORLD CUP, BECAUSE SRILANKANS INTRODUCED A NEW REVOLUTION AND THEY WIN, GREAT WORLD CUP MEMORIES.
Wooow! I'm crying now 🥺 such a patriotic Sri Lankan son 🇱🇰❤️
මට මතක විදියට අස්ගිරියෙදි රන්ජන් මඩුගල්ල ලංකාවේ 9වෙනි ටෙස්ට් ශතකද අර්ජුණ රණතුංග 10 වෙනි ටෙස්ට් ශතකයද ශතක සම්බන්ධතාවක් සමඟ වර්ථා කලා.. නේද.?
ලංකාවේ බිහිවූ විශිෂ්ඨතම ක්‍රීඩකයා
96 අවංක නායකයා අපි love friend
Best captain sri Lanka have ever produced ❤❤❤
Arujuna R is really Gentleman cricketer I hope he become president of srilanka and fix Sinhala Tamil issues and every body live in peace
Great cricketer; great captain.
Srilankan cricket legend..
Weldone Rex. Thank you!
A natural leader and an incredible alpha.
I made several comments regarding him. Actually we still didn't appreciate his leadership. My proposal was we must construct cricket stadium for the name of Arjuna.
Absolutely ❤️
Budu සරණයි sir arajune
අර්ජුන හදවතේ කැප්ටන් 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
The legend.... 💜💜💜
ජ ය වෙවා අපි ආදරේ ගොඩක් 🇱🇰👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋😃
Still he is the best captain we had.
the great cricket leader...
Respect from India to the master captain Arjuna Ranatunga. I had been to Sri Lanka sometime back and the first thing I was searching for was Arjuna's floppy hat haha
Always knew he was a true Sri Lankan cricketer.
Very few knew what he did for outstation cricketers.
Great caption..❤
Love from ❤❤ Pakistan
කුසල් මෙන්ඩිය හිටිය නම් ග්‍රවුන්ඩ් එක වටේ දුවවල වතුර අද්දෝල යවල ගෙදර මෙලහකට, ඒ අස්සෙන් නයිට් ක්ලබ් බැහැල බඩු පිනවන්න ගිහින් කාලකන්නි කොඩිවින මේ මිනිස්සු අපේ රටේ ක්‍රීඩාවෙ ගොඩනැගුව මහත්මා ගතිය ගෘරවෙ නැති කරා කාලකන්නි
The legend of sri lankan cricket...
මෙතරම් ආඩම්බරයක් ලක්මවට ගෙනත් දුන් අති විශිෂ්ට නායකත්වයෙන් ප්‍රයෝජනයක් නොගත් රට , අහෝ දුකකි. අද cricket වැටී ඇති තැනට හේතුව ද එයමය.
Oba Hari sahodaraya?namuth cricket bord ekke Inna suudukarayanta , casino karayanta , buki karayanta oyyatika
Thirenne neththi unge 🧠mola Wala thiyenne cricket venuwata♟️🎰🎲🎯
ඔබතුමා කවදා හරි රටේ ජනාධිපති වෙන්න ඕනා..96 cricket ගොඩ ගත්තා වගෙ. රටත් ගොඩ දාන්න..goob luck captain cool
අනිවා කවදා හරි අවොත් දෙයක් කරයි...
ඉම්රාන් ඛාන් කරනවා වගේ....
ඇත්ත ලංකාවේ නායකයා වෙන්න සුදුසුයි
Great and honest man
Love from pakistan
Hero Srilankan Cricket
Arjuna should be heading the Junior cricket in Sri Lanka. His cricket brain is tapped and was never sadly used by the cricket board . Its time theh utilised his smarts.
Best captain in Sri Lanka Cricket
EXCELLENT INTERVIEW
I deeply respect you Captain Cool.
Lol western media think Steve waugh is a toughest cricketer.........there is no one tough as arjuna ranatunga love from 🇮🇳
Arjuna Rana tungah is Great man
A superb programme
I respect sir... Thank you
we miss you captain cool !
අප සදා ආදරය කල captain cool ...ජයවේවා ...!
ඔරිජිනල් කැප්ටන් කූල් ❤️❤️😍😍
To producer - Is this a radio program.මේක රේඩියෝ වැඩසටහනක් ද. Where are the library footage.කෝ මේ කියන දේවල් වලට අදාල රූප. Very interesting prog. You have spoiled it. අපරාදෙ ලස්සනට කරන්න තිබුන වැඩසටහනක් .මොකද පපරේ ගාව library footage නැතුවද
අැත්ත. මේක පරණ වැඩසටහනක්. එ්ක නිසා වෙන්න අැති.
Great captain ever
Great cricketer sir not a politicians
Captain cool Sir Arjuna
I like his captain 1996 leader ship
hats off recspet ❤️