{"id":13602,"date":"2023-09-28T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=13602"},"modified":"2023-09-28T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:27:04","slug":"sri-lankan-cricketer-not-guilty-of-alleged-tinder-date-stealthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/sri-lankan-cricketer-not-guilty-of-alleged-tinder-date-stealthing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Cricketer Not Guilty Of Alleged Tinder Date &#8220;Stealthing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/danushka-gunathilaka.jpg\" alt=\"Danushka Gunathilaka\" width=\"300\" title=\"Sri Lankan Cricketer Not Guilty Of Alleged Tinder Date \"Stealthing\" \" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12805\" \/><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka was arrested in Nov 2022<\/li>\n<li>Gunathilaka was accused of stealthing his tinder date who filed a complaint with the policy<\/li>\n<li>A Sydney judge found Gunathilaka not guilty based on the witness\u2019s own evidence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When <strong>Danushka Gunathilaka<\/strong> travelled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/au\">Australia<\/a> for the T20 World Cup in 2022, he never would have imagined the nightmare that was about to unravel and get him suspended from the Sri Lankan cricket team.<\/p>\n<h2>What Happened To Danushka Gunathilaka?<\/h2>\n<p>Gunathilaka suffered a hamstring tear and was ruled out of the T20 World Cup in Australia but <strong>he kept himself busy by using Tinder and going on a date<\/strong>. That date turned into a nightmare as the woman in question would go on to file a complaint with the authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/sri-lankan-cricketer-is-facing-rape-charges-after-tinder-date-go-wrong-in-australia\/\">alleging that Gunathilaka had forceful sex with her<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>She also <strong>claimed he resorted to stealthing<\/strong> which is a term used to describe the fact that he agreed to use a condom during intercourse but did not do so. The authorities arrested Gunathilaka on Nov 2, 2022 in Sydney, Australia and his arrest made global news.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan Cricket board suspended him soon after and <strong>his legal team has spent the last 10 months defending him<\/strong> as Gunathilaka claimed he was innocent of the accusations.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oX9zMW5YJ_I?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Judge Rules In Favour Of Gunathilaka Based On Witness\u2019s Evidence <\/h2>\n<p>The trial was turned into a judge only trial due to the amount of media interest in the case pre-trial. The judge also agreed to a speedy trial after Gunathilaka\u2019s legal team presented the fact that he supported his parents financially and was unable to do so due to the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The judge took into consideration all of the evidence which included video that showed Gunathilaka and his <a href=\"https:\/\/tinder.com\">Tinder<\/a> date laughing and having fun on their way to her apartment. The witness also presented evidence to state that <strong>when they started having sex, Gunathilaka used a condom<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>She went on to say that after they had finished having continuous sexual intercourse, she looked on her bedroom floor and <strong>found a condom on the ground<\/strong>, which led her to <strong>believe that Gunathilaka had resulted to stealthing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Gunathilaka\u2019s legal team pointed out that it was not possible to remove a condom during \u2018<em>continuous sexual intercourse<\/em>\u2019 which were the words of the witness and the judge agreed and dismissed the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka was arrested in Nov 2022 Gunathilaka was accused of stealthing his tinder date who filed a complaint with the policy A Sydney judge found Gunathilaka not guilty based on the witness\u2019s own evidence When Danushka Gunathilaka travelled to Australia for the T20 World Cup in 2022, he never would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-legislation","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lankan Cricketer Not Guilty Of Alleged Tinder Date &quot;Stealthing&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When Danushka Gunathilaka travelled to Australia for the T20 World Cup in 2022, he never would have imagined the nightmare that was about to unravel and get him suspended\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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