Help Cricket Expand: An open letter to BCCI
Dear BCCI, I write to you this letter at the risk of being branded as “just another jealous non-Indian who envies the power of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)”. When the FIFA World…
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Satire: Beaten and bruised – A candid chat with a cricket ball in the modern era
Dressed in red or white, depending on the occasion, she can rattle stumps and break jaws. She is a lynchpin in world cricket. When she kisses the willow – her partner-in-crime – she creates music that can…
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Why Sangakkara is one of the best test batsmen of all time
Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara is arguably the best Test batsman Sri Lanka has ever produced. With his exquisite stroke making, impeccable keeping skills, dastardly tactics and acerbic articulation, Sanga has served both Sri Lanka and cricket alike.…
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Street Cricket: A force South Asia should exploit to help Professional Cricket flourish
A sport becomes the heart beat of a nation only when the habitants of that nation start playing that sport. It may be in the backyards of houses, parks, streets, open spaces, play grounds or…
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The reasons for the incompleteness of CLT20
If one moment that had an incredible and perennial impact on World Cricket, then that would be Misbah Ul Haq’s failed scoop against Johinder Sharma in the final of the 2007 WT20. That one shot…
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Benefits cricket can gain from being a part of Asian Games
Cricket is the second-most popular sport in the world, thanks to the gargantuan population of South Asia. Although around 2.5 billion fans follow the sport fervently, the art of cricket is known only to a few…
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An All Time Best World T20 XI that played no T20
It is not uncommon for fans to come up with their own All Time Best world XIs in both Tests and ODIs. With T20 being the recent addition to the game of glorious uncertainties, choosing…
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Mahadevan Sathasivam: A Forgotten Prince of Sri Lanka Cricket
“Wrong place, wrong time” were two of the very first words Shehan Karunathilaka used when describing the fictional Lankan chinaman bowler Pradeep S Mathew. The same phrase can be used for many players. In the…
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Chucking in Cricket should be allowed
Bowling in cricket has seen tremendous changes, from rolling the ball along the turf with an underarm action to adopting a roundarm action which later lead to higherarm actions. Cricket’s attitude towards bowling has seen…
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The need for a more Sri Lankanesque SLPL
SLPL; the first time the concept was plunged into the minds of the Sri Lankans in 2011, everyone in Sri Lanka was excited by the possibility of having a Premiere league tournament of our own.…
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Rugby: Sri Lanka Cricket's New Adversary
Shout the word “Sri Lanka” at a World Stage. For many it is the 30 year war and the various political ploys that surround it, that comes to the mind. For the ones who have…
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A paladin rising from the Corpses- a poem for Sanga
Owls growl and wolves howl, Blood smelling bowlers make the batsmen grovel and beg for life. Balls swing in and out and then come crashing into the toes. Bouncers will knell some chin music. A battle…
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A Poem for Sanga
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Suave exterior was something you were born with! Ambushing the oppositions was a walk by the beach for you! Negating the swing and thwarting the spin, hook and pull were lollipops for you!
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Sri Lanka Cricket's Refugee Camp
Dinesh Chandimal was earmarked as the next big thing in Sri Lanka. Lahiru Thirimanne was expected to be the next number three. But both of them have thwarted all the hopes the fans had placed…
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Sri Lanka's Anathematized Young Batsmen
Sri Lanka is quirky among Cricket Playing Nations. Among the Top Cricket Playing Nations, Sri Lanka has the least GDP; is the second least populated; has the worst domestic structure; and has the least number of International Stadiums.…
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Playing only in his fourth match, Mahela yet again became the flag bearer of the Sri Lankan innings when he scored 167, when no one else crossed fifty. In reply to New Zealand's 193 in the first innings Mahela chaperoned the Sri Lankan batting to gain a lead of 130 which proved adequate to win the test. Mahela's century sparked wild celebrations. A policemen set off a rocket while just at the right time a hot-dog vending machine blew up sending up billowy smoke across the pavillion. Mahela’s Top Ten Test Innings
10. 141 vs New Zealand at Napier, 2005 On a placid track in Napier, after conceding 561 runs in the first innings, Sri Lanka needed to make sure they scored as many runs as possible…
