Michael Roberts
Sri Lanka has been blessed with generations of talented cricketers over the decades: from
- the Kelaarts and Saravanamuttus of the 1920s and 1930s … to
- the Macarthy’s, de Sarams and Heyns of the 1930s and 1940s …
- the Gunasekeras of the 1950s
- the Lieversz, HIK Fernandos and Reids of the 1960s
- Anura Tennekoon, Michael Tissera of the 1960s-1970s
- Duleep Mendis and the Wettimuny’s of the 1970s/80s
- Ranjan Madugalle and Arjuna Ranatunga of the 1980s
- the Aravinda-Ranatunga-Jayasuriya-Kaluwitharana-and-Vaas dynamos of the 1980s and the 1990s
- the Mahela Jayawardena and Sangakkara duo of the 2000s …..
- while not losing sight of that unique phenomenon we know as “Murali” in the 1990s-to-2000s.