Daushka Gunathilaka, 31, was arrested and taken to Sydney City police station on Sunday . Sri Lankan cricketer was in the national squad for the T20 World Cup in Australia .
Danushka Gunathilaka, a Sri Lankan cricketer who was in the national squad for the T20 World Cup in Australia, has been charged with sexual harassment, according to team sources.Following an investigation into alleged sexual harassment of a woman on November 2, Gunathilaka, 31, was arrested and taken to Sydney City police station in the early hours of Sunday.Daushka Gunathilaka has been charged with a alleged rape.According to a source close to the Sri Lankan squad, the team has left Australia without him.
In the first round of the upcoming T20 World Cup, the left-handed batter played against Namibia and was out for a duck.Despite being accepted for the Super 12 stage, he was later forced out of the tournament due to an injury.In Group 1, the Lankan team finished fourth.On its website, New South Wales police also reported the detention of an unidentified Sri Lankan national. A 29-year-old woman was sexually assaulted at a Rose Bay home earlier this week, according to the wesbite.The man allegedly sexually assaulted her the evening of Wednesday, November 2022, after communicating with him for a few days using an online dating website.A crime scene analysis was carried out by specialist police at an address in Rose Bay yesterday as part of ongoing inquiries.A 31-year-old man was arrested at a hotel on Sussex Street, Sydney, just before 1 p.m. today (Sunday 6 November 2022), according to the report.