Rear Admiral Handunnetti Rannulu Amaraweera, WV, VSV, USP, RWP, RSP, DSP, RCDS (UK), Psc (USA).
[3] Amaraweera's brothers former Minister H. R. Piyasiri and former Member of parliament H. R. Wimalasiri too played cricket for Nalanda.
Founding father & the chief architect of Sri Lanka Navy Special Boat squadron.
Amaraweera is the Managing Director of Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (LRDC) Security Services.
Due to Rear Admiral HR Amaraweera’s leadership and timely actions averted a total withdrawal of Sri Lankan Armed Forces from the Jaffna penensula despite government of Sri Lanka and top brass in Colombo insisting on sending merchant vessels to KKS harbor.