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Sophia Corfield’s Partial Bibliography

At some point around 2010/11 I hired Sophia Corfield, one of the married postgrad students whom I had supervised earlier at Adelaide University, to compile my CV. One dimension of this task was the focus on  “Unrefereed Popular Essays” in magazines and newspapers — thus fare cast for the general public.  

In responding to”a recent request from Ratheesh in India, I came upon a Bibliography collected in 2012. One segment of this listing is presented here because it is a record that may interest cricket fanatics and assiduous biographers. It will also enable me to join the late lamented Pissu Percy in the Land of the Eccentric.

 

Un-refereed  Popular essays – Sports

  1. 2009a “Whine or play cricket, January 2009” Himal Southasian, Jan 2009, 22/1, pp. 41-42
  2. 2008 “The spectre of terrorism and cricketing fears,” Island, 3 Jan 2009.
  3. 2009 “Militant Outrages & Cricket Tours: English Grit at Last,” Island, 17 Jan 2009.
  4. 2009 “Cricketing Wimps in an Age of Terror: ‘Abandon Ship’,” Island, 31 Jan 2009.
  5. 2009 “World Cup and beyond,” Island, 14 2009
  6. 2009 “Cricket in an age of Suicide Missions: Three Sturdy Responses,” Island, 28 2009
  7. 2009 “South African cricketers run from Colombo, August 2006,” Island, March (?) 2009
  8. 2009 “The Lahore atrocity: our cricketing ambassadors,” Island, 14 March 2009
  9. 2009 “The referral system: hasty disapproval,” Island, 28 March 2009

2009 “The referral system: why it should remain with fine-tuning,” Island, 25 April 2009

  1. 2009 “Young Cricketers: Under-19 and triple promotions,” Island, 25 April 2009
  2. 2009 “Cricket and Lahore: Atrocities, shambles, miracles,” Baggy Green, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 7-9.
  3. 2009 “Twenty-20 Championship Well done, Sri Lanka!” Island, 27 June 2009
  4. 2009 “Stable selections versus chop-chop-chop: ODI policies,” Island, 4 July 2009
  5. 2008a “Felicitating the Sri Lankan Cricket Squad in Australia, cricket.dilmahtea.com, February 2008.
  6. 2008b “The ODI Squad for Australia – in January Then,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, 3 March 2008
  7. 2008c “Reviewing Lanka’s Performance in the ODI Series in Australia,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, 10 March 2008.
  8. 2008d “Thoughts—ODI Squads for the Near Future,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, 18 March 2008
  9. 2008e “Testing Our Test Potential: Batsmen,’ mid-April 2008,” http://www.cricket.dilmahtea.com
  10. 2008f “Bouquets for Ajantha Mendis and Sri Lanka Cricket” http://www.cricketdilmahtea.com, 9 July 2008 and Island, 11 July 2008.
  11. 2008g “Reserve Strength: Sri Lanka’s A Squads,” http://www.cricketdilmahtea.com, 8 September 2008.
  12. 2008h “Extreme Prejudice: Emotions, Fans & Cricket Commentary,” http://www.cricketdilmahtea.com, 14 September 2008 and Ceylankan, vol. 47/12, Nos 1 and 2, July and August 2009.
  13. 2007a “Pallekele, Asgiriya and Rangiri,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, January 2007.
  14. 2007b “More about Pallekele,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, February 2007
  15. 2007c “The Squad for Australia,” cricket.dilmahtea.com,
  16. 2007d “Dad’s Army? About Age Limits in Cricket,” cricket.dilmahtea.com,
  17. 2007e “Sri Lanka’s Pacemen,” cricket.dilmahtea.com
  18. 2007f “Vilification, Zero Tolerance and Double Standards in Cricket,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, 7 November 2007.
  19. 2007g “Marvan versus ‘Muppets’,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, 12 November 2007
  20. 2006a “The 1996 Syndrome” cricket.dilmahtea.com, 31 January 2006.
  21. 2006b “Sri Lanka’s Super Sub – The Issues,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, 8 February 2006.
  22. 2006c “Remote Control: How Not to Coach,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, 20 February 2006.
  23. 2005a “Politics, Poisonous Pens, Murali & Disaster Aid,” dilmahtea.cricket.com 29 January 2005.
  24. 2005b “Daryl Foster: Measured Man and Unsung Servant,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, April 2005.
  25. 2005c “Dan Cullen, the Doosra & an Aussie Media Twist” cricket.dilmahtea.com, April 2005.
  26. 2005d “Van Dort, Mubarak & Other Prospects,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, July 2005
  27. 2005e “Mentors in Sri Lanka’s Cricketing World,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, October 2005.
  28. 2004a “The Old And The New: In Memoriam, David Hookes,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, & www. cricket_online.com
  29. 2004b “Australia’s Power & Depth in Cricket,” cricket.dilmahtea.com, March 2004 &www. cricket_online.com
  30. 2004c “George Orwell to rule Bowling Actions?” cricket.dilmahtea.com, March 2004 & www.cricket_online.com,
  31. 2004e “About Technology, Bruce Elliott & the Doosra” cricket.dilmahtea.com, & www.cricket_online.com, 8 April 2004
  32. 2004f “Monitoring The Monitors: ICC And Match Referees” cricket.dilmahtea.com, & www.cricket_online.com, 23 April 2004
  33. 2004g “Musical Chairs in Cricket Selections in Sri Lanka” cricket.dilmahtea.com, August 2004
  34. 2004h “Cricket Umpiring and Sri Lanka,” ” cricket.dilmahtea.com, and http://www.cricket-online.org,
  35. August 2004.
  36. 2004i “Testing Tests: A Review of Sri Lanka’s Test Teams, 2004” cricket.dilmahtea.com, and
  37. cricket-online.org, August 2004.
  38. 2004j “Mahadeva Sathasivam,” cricket.dilmahtea.com Sept. 2004
  39. 2003a “Training for Bouncy Pitches” ozlanka.com, 1 Jan 2003
  40. 2003b “Run-Out Cricket,” ozlanka.com, 2 Feb. 2003
  41. 2003b “Racism in cricket?” Sunday Observer, 26 Jan. 2003 and Uthayam, Feb. 2003, p. 16.
  42. 2003d “Lankans should give the Game their Best Shot,” Daily Mirror, March 2003.
  43. 2003d “Death Threats by Match Fixing? Cricketer Paranoia,” ozlanka.com and Sunday Island,
  44. February 2003.
  45. 2003e “Cricket, Politics and Zimbabwe,” Uthayam, March 2003 and Island, 20 March 2003.
  46. 2003f “Abusive Sri Lankan Cricket Fans: A Clarification,” Island, 23 April 2003.
  47. 2003g “Fears of Africa in World Cricket: the Kiwis,” ozlanka.com March 2003.
  48. 2003d “Some Lessons from Galle and Kandy for the Lankans,” www .cricket.dilmahtea.com,
59.     2003e  “Legitimising the Bullyboys on the Cricket Field,” www.cricket.dilmahtea.com, 16 Dec 2004.
60.     2003f  “Transparent Justice? About Lozenges, Dravid and Camera Teams,” www.cricket.dilmahtea.com
  1. 2002a “Bomb blasts and cricket,” Sunday Observer, 26 May 2002.
  2. 2002b “The 1996 syndrome,” com,
  3. 2002c “Cricketing greats, cricketing lords,” com, 17(?) July 2002.
  4. 2002d “Brickbats at Fernando, stones at Johnston,” Sunday Times, 4 August 2002.
  5. 2002e “Positive proof? The camera lies,” com, 19 July 2002.
  6. 2002g “All-rounder for Lanka, with pace,” com, 5 August 2002.
  7. 2002h “Weighted cricket commentary,” com, 5 August 2002.
  8. 2002i “Faint hearts in cricket, Part I,” com, 5 August 2002.
  9. 2002j “Faint hearts in cricket, Part II,” com, 11 August 2002.
  10. 2002k “Letter to the ICC, July 2002” Uthayam, August 2002, p. 23.
  11. 2002m “Kaleidoscope Rajasthan,” Lanka Monthly Digest, September 2002, pp. 149.
  12. 2002n “Sri Lanka’s cricket at the ICC Trophy,” com, 2 October 2002.
  13. 2002p “The power of fame,” com, 23 October 2002.
  14. 2002q “Blatant discrimination in TV cricket From South Africa,” ozlanka.com
  15. 2002r “Letter to ICC on sledging,” 25 November 2002; also on ozlanka.com
  16. 2002s “Pollock’s patronising faux pas,” ozlanka.com November 2002.
  17. 2002t““Await embarrassment? Sri Lankan cricketers in Australia” ozlanka.com 13 Dec. 2002.
  18. 2002u “ODI Teams. Messy selections” ozlanka.com, 21 Dec. 2002.
  19. 2001a “Sotheby’s stumped by stumps,” com, 2 July 2001.
  20. 2001b “Arjuna’s regime,” com Commemorative Issue, pp. 16-19.
  21. 2001c “Four Bajans in Sri Lanka during the early 20th Century,” The West Indies & Zimbabwe tours to Sri Lanka, 2001-2002, Colombo: BCCSL Publication, pp. 7-8.
  22. 2001d “Joe Hoad, allrounder,” The West Indies & Zimbabwe tours to Sri Lanka, 2001-2002, Colombo: BCCSL Publication, pp. 20-21.
  23. 2001e “Uniformity & difference in cricketing rules,” com,
  24. 2001f “The falling wicket: it’s failures,” com,
  25. 2001g “Travelling Cricketers, I” com, 25 February 2001.
  26. 2001h “Cricket as global as honourable,” com, 25 April 2001.
  27. 2001i “Travelling Cricketers, II” com,
  28. 2001j “Darrell Hair’s moral crusade threatens the game,” com,
  29. 2001k “Twin blunders in one game,” com,
  30. 2000a“Susanthika: as beleagured as gutsy,” Lanka Monthly Digest, December 2000, vol. 7: 5, pp. 70-71.
  31. 2000c “Against verbal intimidation in cricket,” com, ?
  32. 1999a “Media responsibility in the branding of Murali”, The Island, 20 February 1999.
  33. 1999b “Seaming turfs: the lottery of the World Cup,” Lanka Monthly Digest, World Cup Supplement, May 1999, pp.17-18
  34. 1999b “The Ugly Face of Australian Sport”, Lanka Monthly Digest, July 1999, vol. 5:12, p. 50.
  35. 1999c “The Many Sides of Arjuna Ranatunga,” com,
  36. 1999d “Arjuna Ranatunga”, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, Australia, 1999, 52-56.
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