Arjuna Ranatunga is a Sri Lankan cricketer-turned politician. He is the current chief of Sri Lanka Cricket, the body which predominantly oversees the game in Sri Lanka.

Ranatunga comes from Gampaha, a town twenty miles north of Colombo. He, along with his brothers, studied at Ananda College Colombo where his mother was a teacher. Arjuna's cricketing career started and was carefully nurtured at school. He played cricket for both the junior and senior teams and captained the Ananda College senior team for two years.