December 13, 2024 · 1:03 am

Three Promising Young Tamils in Present Sri Lankan U19 Squad

Information from Prakash Schaffter of Janashakthi Insurance in response to my Request, December 2020 ….. Editor, Thuppahi

Sharujan Shanmuganathan, born on April 25, 2006, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, is a promising left-handed wicketkeeper-batsman representing the Sri Lanka Under-19 cricket team. He gained early recognition for his elegant stroke play, drawing comparisons to former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara. At just five years old, during a 2011 Test match between Sri Lanka and Australia, Shanmuganathan was spotted playing a graceful cover drive, earning him the nickname “Little Sanga” from commentator Tony Greig.

Shanmuganathan honed his cricket skills at St. Benedict’s College, Kotahena, and further developed his talent under the guidance of coach Nelson Mendis at the CCC School of Cricket. He showcased his potential by scoring 1,000 runs in the U19 Division One Interschools Two-Day Cricket Tournament for the 2022/23 season.

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December 12, 2024 · 11:49 pm

Seeking Ethnic Reconciliation Through Commemoration of the Dead-in-War

Capt Prasanna Rajaratne, SLN … in DAILY FT, 6 December 2024, ….. where the title reads “National security only through national harmony“
They may still feel trapped in the same plight, and unless that perception is acknowledged, addressed, and their aspirations realised, the resurgence of dissent is not merely possible but inevitable

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December 12, 2024 · 12:52 am

Rex Clementine Reviews SAF Test Tour

Rex Clementine in The ISLAND, 11 December 2024, where the title reads ”Jayasuriya backs Kamindu Mendis”

Sri Lankan cricket has experienced a year of dramatic highs and sobering lows. Triumphs across formats—like breaking a 27-year ODI series drought against India, clinching a Test win in England after a decade, and securing a Test series victory over New Zealand after 14 years—are testaments to their resurgence. But the recent Test series defeat in South Africa has been a bitter pill to swallow, especially when a World Test Championship final berth seemed within reach.

Kamindu

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December 11, 2024 · 11:02 pm

T10 League Cricket at Pallekele, Kandy …. Volaarey! Cantaarey!!

OFFICIAL DIGITAL PRESENTATION ..…. But no spot in ESPNCRICINFO

The league has been organized by Sri Lanka Cricket in partnership with the Abu Dhabi T10 league and is planned to start in December 2024. The matches will be 10-overs-a-side; and the duration of each match will be approximately 90 minutes. The tournament will follow a round-robin format.

The matches at Pallekelle off Kandy are being telecast live and it was by pure chance that at night on Wednesday 11 December I caught the first innings of the Jaffna Titans vs Hambantota Tigers skippered by Dasun Shanaka and Charitha Asalanka respectively. Several of the players did not carry familiarity in my lexicon; but “Kusal Perera,’’ “Isuru Udana’’ and “Pretorius” did ring bells.

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December 11, 2024 · 2:07 pm

Targetted — By Richard Woolf’s Slashing You-Tube Visuals

ITEMS sent to me by my old Aloysian mate Sarri Junaid in Canada…

Trump’s Failed War on China ….

How long will Trump last

Europe is An Economic Basket-case

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December 10, 2024 · 7:52 pm

A Thrilling Last Over Victory for South Australia

Andrew McGlashan, in ESPNcricinfo, 10 December 2024

After Agar’s yorker on the last ball was jammed out by Meredith, he thought he hadn’t seized the moment and that it would be a draw.

“It went from how have we managed to lose this to how have we won this?” Approaching 24 hours on from one of the most dramatic Sheffield Shield finishes of all time, South Australia quick bowler Wes Agar was still trying to make sense of the scenes that unfolded in Hobart on Monday evening when No. 11 Riley Meredith was run out off the last ball.
“I just remember seeing the ball getting thrown in and I see Riley running out of the corner of my eye,” Agar told ESPNcricinfo. “I stopped for a minute and thought, ‘what’s happened?’

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December 10, 2024 · 6:51 pm

Trump presented as a Chimpanzee ….

The 47th PRESIDENT in USA ….. in parody …. Trump as a CHIMP

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December 10, 2024 · 12:31 am

Revelations: USA’s Powermongering in the Middle-East Exposed

LISTEN to these Tirades on YOU-TUBE from Two American Spokesmen

A = https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cWlY75gm0wU ..….. General Wesley Clark lashes out

B = https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mnqcqDokCw8 .…… Richard Woolf insists that Israel is a form of settler colonialism

 

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December 9, 2024 · 4:46 pm

Facing A Corpse: Asia vs The West …. A Fundamental Difference & Its Political Implications

  Michael Roberts    

The sharp warring conflict in Syria today amidst the ongoing war in Ukraine and that in Gaza underlines stories and ‘pictures’ of battlefield dead (both civilians and soldiers). These in their turn highlight the fundamental differences in the manner in which some Asian countries conduct funerals and face the issue of death embodied in a corpse (in some cases that of a loved one or kinsperson).

This fundamental difference has equally fundamental political consequences. For this reason, I take my Thuppahi-readers (no offence meant) to a segment in one of my past presentations when I presented thoughts relating to the official display of Velupillai Pirapaharan as a corpse in May 2009.

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December 5, 2024 · 7:32 pm

The IMF’s Vice-Like Grip on Sri Lanka’s Testicles … Continues

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose chosen title runs thus‘ ‘The IMF’s Remarkable Timing and a President’s Mandate for Debt Justice” …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor Thuppahi**

At Annual Meetings in Washington in October International Monetary Fund head, Kristalina Georgieva claimed Sri Lanka as a debt restructuring ‘success’ story.[i]  Left unsaid was that Sri Lanka’s external debt had apparently ballooned from $26 billion to a purported whopping $100 billion during two years of “reforms’ under the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF)![ii]

A month later, the island’s newly elected Cabinet led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka signed off on an official “bond exchange” with International Sovereign bondholders (ISB). The President had done a U-turn on election pledges to re-negotiate agreements with the IMF and ISB that were widely perceived to be detrimental to the county.

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