Michael Roberts …..“Exotic” in My EYES that is ….
Rohan Kunnumal from India …………. Daniel Lategan from UK …………….Roshan Wagshan from India …………. Jikku Bright from India ………… Sandeep Warrier from India …………. Prince Balwant Raj from India
EMAIL COMMENT From ERROL FERNANDO in Melbourne, 9 December 2025
“Dear Michael, It is fantastic to hear from you about these ‘exotic’ cricketers who are completely unknown. Cricket isn’t only for Australia, England and India. It is also for exotic cricketers everywhere. They will produce new insights into the World of Cricket.
All gratitude and thanks to you for giving them their moment in the sun. Long may you continue to shine a light on treasures that go unnoticed,” …………. Errol
RESPONSE, 10 December 2025
“Perhaps because of my own familial background I have always been interested in ethnicity and this interest has been deepened by my fields of academic research. Needless to say, Sri Lanka’s subjection to rule by three different European powers and its interaction with Indian peoples inserted plenty of ethnic variety into the local populace.
We can smile and jest and even dance the Kaffrinha or a baila in emphasising this variety …. Rather than revealing the depths of human prejudice in the manner of a Nalin Goonewardena [who deployed the epithet “Kaaberi” as a dagger at my throat].
Sri Lanka’s kaaberi lineages are strains to be pleased about. Apart from the musical inspirations, the sporting capacities displayed in the past by such personnel as Susanthika Jayasinghe, Romesh Kaluwitharana, Sanath Jayasuriya et al may conjecturally and conceivably be traced ….albeit only in part … to genes inserted into the island’s populace by the African troops (and deserters) in the regiments of the three colonial rulers……
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanthika_Jayasinghe ….
