Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha (5 August 1947 – 11 September 2020) was a Sri Lankan cricketer.
[1] A right-arm medium pace bowler, he played five One Day Internationals at the 1975 and 1979 Cricket World Cups.
[2][3] Educated at St. Peter's College, Colombo, Opatha joined the Royal Ceylon Volunteer Air Force in 1968.
He later played club cricket in Ireland for one season in 1979 and was offered the post of coach of the Holland team.
The name of the team, "Arosa Sri Lankan XI", derived from Opatha's initials ARO plus SA for South Africa.