Old Cricketers Except D.S, the undesirable
This bit is a "gossip", I made to a local paper.
I do hesitate to write anything about present cricketers except Mahela (not necessary for Sanga, with a big wag) for posterity.
They are our Rohan Kanhai and Kallicharan duo.
There is no one who looks like Vivian Richards on record in Ceylon.
Cricketers (all good cricketers should do that) used to walk away (like Mahela) if they felt they were out without leaving the agony for the umpires to guess.
Our cricket Board is corrupt to the core like our politicians.
Politicians
(even after heroic victory) and board officials (big mess in cricket stadiums - the grass they used to overlay to cover the corrupt practices- milking every benefit possible) never resign.
1. Kehel I knew him well in cricket and police.
2. Daya (Sahabandu) used to ball SIX different ways in an over.
He was the worst fielder we ever had.
He (probably) never caught and balled a victimn in an international.
Somebody had to be in the Circle or Ring to catch for him.
It was very nice cricket anyway, without a hype.
3. We had a guy called Ben Navaratne who whipped the bail by his tongue and the umpire could not catch the trick.
If
he became a politician with his wagging tongue (not the tails of
present parliamentarians), God only knows, how high he would have gone up.
4. Micheal Tissera was the best we had, he could have achieved more, if not for the fact, his buddy (best man) eloped with his wife to Australia.
Collection of these writings should be there in the Web, preserved as archives, for the young ones to browse.
