LASATH DE SILVA in FB 24 March 2024
Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis become the first ever duo to stitch 170+ runs in both innings of a Test match & 3rd ever pair of batsmen to score Centuries in both innings of a Test match!
#DhananjayaDeSilva #KaminduMendis #SriLankaCricket #BANvsSL
Michael Roberts, using ESPNcricinfo report on T2o Encounter at Sharjah on 17 March 2024
Nangeyalia Kharote, b. 25 April 2004 …... slow left-hand orthodox bowler and left hand bat ….. secured these bowling figures:
| 4 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 5.75 |
while 39-year oldie Mohammad Nabi, supported him with
| 3 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 4.66 |
…. after scoring 59 tuns in 38 balls
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Michael Roberts
Located in Adelaide I followed some stages of the match in its digital verbal mode on ESPN … in intermittent fashion … till 1.30 am and only saw the final result today. Clearly, our praise must be extended to Pathum Nissanka, Charith Asalanka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dilshan Madushanka and Dunith Wellalage in that order. But, of course, it was a team effort.
Andrew McGlashan in ESPNcricinfo, 14 March 2024, …. “Sheffield Shield team of the season: Webster, Davies, McAndrew… and who else? …”
Mohamed Isam’s Review in ESPNcricinfo, 4 March 2024 ... https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/bangladesh-vs-sri-lanka-2023-24-1419819/bangladesh-vs-sri-lanka-1st-t20i-1419824/match-report
Jaker Ali
*Tissera Brothers – Michael with older brother Vernon at the Thomian (Over 65) Fellowship at SSC on 17 Dec 2023. Vernon played 1st XI back in 1949 as an opening bat scoring a solid 30 in the 70th Battle of the Blues. Vernon is currently the third oldest Thomian cricketer after Chandra Schaffter & Bradman Weerakoon.
Q 1: What was the major turning point in your cricketing career?
“At school [S. Thomas College], I hardly scored runs consistently. Those days the school matches were played over two half-days and you looked to push the game along to get results. I got one only hundred while playing for College. The lack of big scores was more mental than technique.
Michael Roberts supplementing KK De Silva’s article with aid from Johnny De Silva in Melbourne (all three of us Aloysians who played cricket in the School XI in the mid-1950s)
“Michael Roberts, writes as follows on his initiation in an article titled ‘Aloysian Identity’ in the Aloysian Centenary Souvenir, 1895-1995: ‘A big cricket match meant cheering parties. Big cheering parties, and sometimes ‘bajau‘ afterwards. These cheering parties were boisterous, rumbustious, inspiring affairs — even when saddened at the end by our team’s effort.”
‘The doyen of cheer leaders in our time [my pre-16 junior days] was Royle Barthelot. And among us learning the trade which has made him famous was Percy Abeysekera, Pissu Percy, as he is lovingly (and not always lovingly), called. It could be truly said that he is one of the most widely known Aloysians of our time, leaving such luminaries as Dr Cyril Ponnamperuma in the shade!
He has also been a good ambassador as I can attest from Australian crowd responses in Adelaide — where I had the privilege of watching a one-day match where, facing an imposing target of over 300, we [the two us] watched Roshan Mahanama and Arjuna Ranatunga lead a magnificent fight back after an initial collapse in a game which we — that is Sri Lanka — lost nobly.
This just goes to show that being Aloysian has been a building block towards being Sri Lankan.’
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