Bedgar Perera
“Victoria name 14-player squad for Second XI clash against NSW,” September 29, 2024 ……….
Casey South Melbourne’s Ash Chandrasinghe and Melbourne’s Campbell Kellaway have been selected with the Blues’ Xavier Crone to Captain the side, while first-year players Austin Anlezark and Tyler Pearson will also travel.
Cricket Victoria’s Talent Development Manager – Male, Tom Evans, Men’s Assistant Coach, Ben Rohrer, and current Victorian bowler, Peter Siddle, will make up the coaching group for the game.
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Darshani Ratnawalli
In the USA, public prosecutors are elected.
To get elected public prosecutors must achieve convictions, the more convictions the better, the more sensational the convictions, the better.
If a public prosecutor only files cases, only talks about cases and fails to make any of it stick, i.e achieve convictions, he starts being seen as a failed prosecutor by the people.
He won’t be elected again.
Edward Upali in Canada
After 14 years of chaotic rule, the governing Conservative Party of the UK, lost the General Election to the Labour Party on July 4, this year. However the Labour Party, battered by successive election losses and the threat of losing ground to the Liberal Democrats, had transformed itself to be almost an image of the Conservative party, never mind their working class supporters. Since the July 4, election, Labour were out to reassure the British voting public that they have nothing to fear from a Labour take over, and that life would go on as usual, except for the old age pensioners.
The Labour Party was led by Sir Keith Stramer LLB, KCB, KC. the leader of the Opposition since 2020, became the Prime Minister of the UK on July 4. Rishi Sunak, B.A. M.B.A , the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Conservatives became the leader of the Opposition.
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Fr Aloysius Pieris .… now residing at the TULANA RSEARCH CENTRE in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Cyril Ponnamperuma was an ex-Jesuit. As a former Jesuit scholastic, he studied at Sacred Heart College in Shambaganur (in the State of Madras or Tamilnadu). The Sacred Heart College was an international Jesuit Philosophate where he secured his Licentiate in Philosophy (L. Ph), as did many of us Lankan Jesuits.
Licentiate in Philosophy is a universally recognized ecclesiastical degree (not a BSc) and had nothing to do with the Madras University. That degree corresponds to an M. Ph in a secular university today.
Ponnamperuma on right with George Keyt
Merril Gunaratne, …. Senior DIG Police (Retired).. in The Island newspaper …. where a different title is deployed. Note that the highlights here are impositions by The Editor, Thuppahi .**
The propaganda which possibly helped the NPP leader to overcome SJB and UNP leaders was their capacity to aggressively agitate against many features of an ‘’iniquitous system’’ which people attributed to have been responsible for the bankruptcy of the country. They also exploited the belief of people that members of political groups or traditional parties which exchanged political power in turn, enjoyed perquisites and privileges associated with the “system”, while citizens suffered under the weight of the economic collapse. The “Aragalaya’’ of May 1922 heralded the emergence on a pervasive scale of hatred against the ‘’system”. The NPP took notice, and their campaign against it did not abate till the conclusion of the election.
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Sampath Bandarapulli … in ESPNcricinfo 29 September 2024, where the title reads “Stats – SL’s best year in Tests since 2006”
Stats highlights from Galle, where Sri Lanka crushed New Zealand by an innings and 154 runs
Andrew Fidel Fernando, in ESPNcricinfo, 29 September 2024 where the title reads “Peiris five-for puts Sri Lanka in sight of series sweep”
New Zealand’s lower middle order put up a fight, but couldn’t avoid an innings defeat ….. Sri Lanka 602 for 5 dec (Kamindu 182, Chandimal 116, Kusal 106*, Mathews 88, Phillips 3-141) beat New Zealand 88 (Jayasuriya 6-42, Peiris 3-33) and 360 (Phillips 78, Santner 67, Conway 61, Blundell 60, Peiris 6-170, Jayasuriya 3-139) by an innings and 154 runs
Nishan Peiris struck early on the fourth morning Continue reading
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Michael Roberts
Kumar Sangakkara’s recent step as a front-personage for tourism in Sri Lanka (see https://thuppahis.com/2024/09/29/kumar-sangakkara-for-tourist-trips-to-sri-lanka/) calls to mind his bold steps on behalf of ethnic compromise and reconciliation in Sri Lanka in the 200os. In these efforts he was joined at diferent moments by Murali and Mahela [tsunami relief tours) and his wife Yehali (visit to St Patricks College in Jaffna, 2009).
These instances underline the weight of the messages in an article from my pen which was presented in GROUNDVIEWS by Sanjana Hattotuwa and Co towards the end of THE YEAR 2012.
Standing now in the year 2024 this essays — as well as the comments it attracted — may serve as useful points of departure for meaningful commentary.
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