The last time India lost five out of seven Tests at home was in the 1950s, and here are the reasons why. Lowest ebb for Indian Test cricket in years?
An OVERVIEW of India’s Test Performances ….
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A Political Tragedy in Peru: Hostage Rescue Operation,1997
A Roaming World Citizen
A NOTE ….
Consider the pictorial material and varied written items in the two-volume Vijitha Yapa Publication by Michael Roberts, Tamil Person & State. Essays and Tamil Person & State. Pictorial, (2012, ISBN).
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T20 Cricket Tournament in 2026 …. in India & Sri Lanka: SCHEDULE
Courtesy of Sunil Thenabadu
ICC ANNOUNCES ICC MEN’S T20 WORLD CUP SCHEDULE IN FEBRUARY 2026
Sri Lanka to Face Australia, Ireland, Oman and Zimbabwe in Group Stage
The ICC has announced the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup schedule, with Sri Lanka placed in Group B alongside Ireland, Oman, Zimbabwe, and Australia. The tournament will be co-hosted by Sri Lanka and India, featuring 20 teams divided into four groups before progressing to the Super Eights stage.
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Safs overwhelm India Comprehensively in Test Match at Guwahati
Dannie Byrne, as final part of his illuminating coverage of the SAF-India encounters from a neutral Englisman’s position
Harmer proves to be too good for the Indian batsmen who sink to a humiliating new low. Day 5 in Guwahati.
Harmer completed the over from the previous evening before Jansen ran in from the Pavilion End. Sudharsan was caught behind off Jansen but was rescued by the no-ball hooter as he started making the journey back to the Dressing Room. I managed to smuggle a newspaper and a bottle of water into the ground this morning and discovered that the price of an egg had suddenly risen in Guwahati market from 8 Rupees to 10. Kuldeep was dropped by Markram at slip off Harmer after 15 minutes of play. India should have been 39 – 4 instead of 39 – 2.
Simon Harmer celebrates a wicket Continue reading
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A Heartening Shift in Sri Lanka’s Political Culture Today
Bedgar Perera
I had happened to listen on youtube some time in February,2025, to an address by a learned senior professor,(whose name I had failed to get at) delivered before a distinguished audience that had included a large gathering of Buddhist clergy,a former President, a former Speaker and other politicians most of whom held power in yesteryear and are since out of the saddle.
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Nissanka Mauls Zimbabwe …..
Madushka Balasuriya in ESPNcricinfo, November 2025 where the title reads “Nissanka’s 98* keeps Sri Lanka’s hopes of making tri-series final alive” ….
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My Interaction with Bradman ….. Bradman Weerakoon
Michael Roberts
Though Don Bradman had settled down in Adelaide and his son was a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Adelaide University and thereby a colleague [1], I never met the Don personally (while recognising his greatness by attending the massed commemoration of his death at the Adelaide Oval in 2001).
The first encounter with Bradman Weerakon was via his wife. It was an unplanned ‘encounter’. She was floating in complete peace in the relatively calm waters between reef and shore at the Boy’s Bathing Place off the Fort of Galle — a spot about 500 yards from the Roberts house in Middle Street — without allowance for the gentle current which took her into a rocky section of the swimming spot where corals and sea pencils were a danger. Spotting this, I swam rapidly to her side, told her to stay calm and floating and then guided her safely (still floating on her back) to a spot on the shoreline. She was pleased and grateful to the teenage lad who had assisted her.
the photo alongside is not of the Boy’d Bsthing Place” but it suggests the ckind of physical circumstances where I participated ona minor rescue act
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Bradman Weerakoon: An Enduring Epitaph
Chandrasena Maliyadde, in DailyFT 12 July 2025, where the title reads thus: “A Man lived in Many Hearts”….. https://www.ft.lk/columns/A-man-lived-in-many-hearts/4-778880
His legacy, lasting impact, and the void have no substitutes. His loss is not mourned only by his family, relatives, or friends. The entire country does it. The entire population was his family. There are 1.5 million public servants in the country. Bradman was always the pinnacle and was among the few most respected public servants. His demise marks the end of an era. It marks a profound loss and an absence that leaves a lasting impact and cannot be easily replaced.
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Heil “LILI MARLEEN” …. A Song That Straddled Enemy Lines
Lili Marleen (German version) – A song full of contradictions and history
One song and two singers came to represent opposition and resistance to Hitler in the Second World War. The most beautiful and certainly most popular song of the Second World War was Lili Marlene.
A poem written in 1915, it was first recorded by German singer Lale Andersen in 1939 and was titled Das Mädchen unter der Laterne (The Girl under the Lantern). Another hugely popular version was recorded by Marlene Dietrich, a German exile living in the USA.00:00
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Remembering Upali Seneviratne: An Exemplary Police Officer
Merril Gunaratne, in Sunday Island, 23 November 2025, …with highlighting being impositions of The Editor, Thuppahi
Upali Seneviratne was one of the finest officers of the Police of a bygone era, when it’s repute was at a peak. They were times when, subject to exceptions, officers considered themselves bound only by the writ of the IGP and the rule of law. Unfortunately, Upali’s odyssey with the police was relatively brief. He enlisted as a sub inspector in 1957, and retired in 1980 as an ASP.
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