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India & England Face-Off with Five T20 Matches
Shresh Shah, in ESPNcricinfo, 21 January 2025, with this title “T20 heavyweights look to draw first blood ahead of five-round bout” The two teams are in transition, but there’s plenty of firepower in both sides for what should be a … Continue reading →
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Bam! Bam! Scoop! Aussies Outdo England in High-Scoring ODI
Michael Roberts Though England galloped to the high score of 351 runs being asked to bat first in the Champions Trophy match at Lahore, Australia ran that target down with 15 balls to spare …. aided by a century from … Continue reading →
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Three Cricket Captains for Sri Lanka?
News Item in the Daily Mirror, 16 December 2023 …. https://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking-news/De-Silva-Mendis-and-Hasaranga-to-appoint-as-Test-ODI-and-T20-captains/108-273379The newly appointed selection committee of Sri Lanka Cricket led by Upul Tharanga, reportedly decided to change the leadership roles for the Sri Lanka Test, ODI and T20 teams.As per … Continue reading →
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Introducing an Essay on an Ethnic Confrontation at a Cricket Match in 1981
Michael Roberts This ‘encounter’ took place in 1981 and involved a Burgher Sri Lankan barracker earning the combined ‘resistance’ of an Aussie cricketer and Sinhala bystander (Sinha). As an observer of this set of exchanges, I moved beyond a clarification … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka ‘Besieged’ by Foreign ‘Settler Tourism’
Dr Asoka Bandarage, in The Island, 5 September 2025 where the title reeads, “Sri Lanka: The beautiful, besieged island” “Israelis are coming to Sri Lanka, and they’ve done what they do best — taking over the place. They’ve occupied it … Continue reading →
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Two Huge Centuries …. One Winner as Sri Lankan Women down South Africans
VISIT https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/sri-lanka-women-in-south-africa-2023-24-1398245/south-africa-women-vs-sri-lanka-wome Skipper Chamari Aththapaththu’s 195 runs in 139 balls at a strike/rate of 140.28 nullified the benefits of Laura Wolfvaardt’s 184 runs in 147 balls; …. and enabled Sri Lanks’s female cricketersto overhaul the Saf total of 301 for … Continue reading →
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Penetrating Sri Lanka: Foreign Enclaves & Global Powers
Dr Asoka Bandarage, inThe Island, 5 September 2025 where the title reads: “Lanka: The beautiful, besieged island” ++ with highlights and “A NOTE to ASOKA” being The Editor’s Interventions “Israelis are coming to Sri Lanka, and they’ve done what they … Continue reading →
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China Now Has The Capacity to Challenge USA
Andre Benoit in https://www.rt.com/news/625708-new-cold-war-front-line/ …. where the title reads “Contained no more: China has a plan to break America’s chokehold” Washington’s warships guard the chokepoints. Beijing digs for exits on land. The clash is just beginning. © This image was … Continue reading →
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A Zealot in USA targets Sri Lanka
Rohana R. Wasala, in The Island, 10 September 2025, with this title “The root of all evil” Professor Michael K. Jerryson of Youngstown State University, Ohio, USA, testified on the subject of ‘Human Rights Concerns in Sri Lanka’ before the … Continue reading →
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The Pervasive Spoils System of Yesteryear Rejected in Sri Lanka’s Presidential Elections
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 … Continue reading →
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