Personal Life
Vaas is Roman Catholic and is known to pray before every game. He intended to become a priest at a young age but believed that God wanted him to play cricket instead: "I seriously considered going into the priesthood, which would have meant 12 to 14 years of study. But then cricket began to take over. I think that God created me as a cricketer, so I am happy that that's my calling.". He suffered some minor injuries during the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team bus by terrorists in Lahore which resulted in the abandonment of that Test series against Pakistan.
According to Bill Frindall, scorer and statistician for BBC Radio's Test Match Special, Chaminda is actually his penultimate given name, therefore his initials should read WPUJC.
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