Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka has been arrested and charged with the alleged repeated sexual assault of a Sydney woman he met through an online dating app.
Police confirmed the international cricket star, 31, was arrested at a Sussex Street hotel about 1am on Sunday over the alleged incident in Sydney’s east last week.
Detectives from the State Crime Command’s Sex Crimes Squad and Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command commenced a joint investigation following reports a 29-year-old woman had been sexually assaulted at a home in Rose Bay.
Gunathilaka was taken to Sydney Police Station and charged with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent.
He was refused bail to appear at Parramatta Bail Court on Sunday.