Tharjini Sivalingam does not like being the world’s tallest netballer. A life spent being ridiculed, bullied, stared at and talked about as if she is deaf as well as gigantic has been torturous at times for the Sri Lankan seven-footer.
“God punished me,’’ says the Victorian Netball League shooter, who grew up in a tiny rural village in the Jaffna District, and in an otherwise small-to-medium-sized family. She’s the fifth of six siblings who are all 25cm shorter, at least.
Tharjini Sivalingam is used to being stared at. Seven feet tall, she sleeps diagonally, dodges ceiling fans, and has endured cruelty and war. Yet she found hero status in netball,
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