A further first-class appearance followed in 1976, when he was a part of the Sri Lanka Board President's XI team which played the touring Pakistanis.
A year later he appeared for Sri Lanka in a first-class match against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club,[2] who he also made his List A debut against.
Over the coming seasons he continued to play in England for Bedfordshire, playing Minor counties cricket from 1978 to 1982 (with the exception of 1980), making 38 Minor Counties Championship appearances,[4] as well as a single List A appearance in the 1982 NatWest Trophy against Somerset.
[3] By 1983, Sri Lanka had Test status, but Abeynaike never gained full international honours.
He played for the Sri Lanka Board President's XI in 1983 against the touring Australians, he later joined the Sinhalese Sports Club, who he made his debut for in a List A match in the final of the 1988/89 Brown's Trophy against the Nondescripts Cricket Club.