Ajith C. S. Perera

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ajith C. S. Perera
Occupation	Cricket Umpire
Date Of Birth	Feb 29, 1956(1956-02-29)
Age	68
Date Of Death	29 October 2020 (aged 64); Colombo, Sri Lanka
Birthplace	Galle
Country	Sri Lanka
Birth City	Galle
Horoscope	Aquarius

Ajith C. S. Perera Biography

Ajith C. S. Perera is one of the most popular and richest Cricket Umpire who was born on February 29, 1956 in Galle, Galle, Sri Lanka. Born to Instructor Commodore M. G. S. Perera (01 June 1917 – 10 August 1999), Founder and the First Commandant Naval & Maritime Academy Trincomalee AND the First and Foremost Director of Naval Training, Royal Ceylon Navy. and former Senior Staff Captain / Nautical Instructor (Training of Deck Officer Cadets) Ceylon Shipping Corporation (1977–1983) and Maureen Johanna Perera (19 February 1924 – 22 October 2019), he has one sister, Deepthi C. J. Guneratne BSc (Botany), MSc (Soil Chemistry).

In 1975, whilst still an undergraduate, Perera qualified to become a Cricket Umpire. He is the First and Only test-match-panel Cricket Umpire the Royal College Colombo and the University of Colombo have ever produced.

His professional career started in August 1978 as an assistant lecturer at the department of Chemistry, University of Colombo. His work thereafter in the multinational pharmaceutical manufacturing industry extended for almost 14 years, from September 1978 until July 1992.

Sri Lanka gained test status in 1981 as a full member of the international cricket council. Yet, it was still the era when cricket scoring was hardly given any kind of importance.

Perera started playing serious cricket, as a utility player who combined his undergraduate and postgraduate education with cricket. He represented regularly the University of Colombo for seven consecutive years between 1972 and 1978, and played at Inter-club Division – One two-day tournament cricket conducted by the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) for the P. Saravanamuttu Trophy, which was then considered as the main first-class domestic cricket competition in the country.

Ajith C. S. Perera Net Worth

Ajith C. S. Perera is one of the richest Cricket Umpire from Sri Lanka. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ajith C. S. Perera 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ajith Chrysantha Stephen Perera, JP, CChem., FRSC (born 29 February 1956) is a Chartered Chemist by profession, a scholar, a former senior manager in industry, a qualified training instructor, also a former test-match-panel cricket umpire.

This book is a tribute to Perera’s father, who served Sri Lanka’s Navy in its formative years (1950–1975) and founded the Naval and Maritime Academy (NMA) at Dockyard Trincomalee on 18 July 1967, serving as its first commandant. See under External links and the first Director Naval Training Sri Lanka Navy

Perera completed his primary and secondary education at the Royal Primary School and the Royal College, Colombo and thereafter gained BSc (Honours) from the University of Sri Lanka, Colombo in May 1975, followed by a joint MSc from the University of Colombo and the University of Birmingham, England in July

1977. He thereby qualified professionally in the field of Analytical Chemistry, specialising in the subject of Quality Assurance, in which he holds an honorary PhD.

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For 15 weeks of the British summer in 1990, Perera, afforded the opportunity, umpired cricket matches in England in Lancashire County four-day Second Eleven and in top Leagues in the area, viz. Bolton & District Cricket Association, Bolton League and Central Lancashire.

Facts & Trivia

Ajith Ranked on the list of most popular Cricket Umpire. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sri Lanka. Ajith C. S. Perera celebrates birthday on February 29 of every year.

But it was only 14 weeks service there for Perera, as a freak road accident on 12 November 1992 made him instantaneously a paraplegic for life and cut short tragically, at the age of 36, his professional career that was just blossoming out.