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Monga’s Incisive Analysis of Australia’s 50 -Over Triumph

Sidharth Monga, in ESPNcricinfo.com, 22 March 2023,  “Zampa and Co stifle India to take series 2-1″ Australia snatched the No. 1 ODI rankingAustralia Outplay India in Final Fifty-Over ODI and snapped India’s four-year unbeaten series streak at home with a … Continue reading

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Kamindu Mendis Leaps Unto The World Cricket Stage

Nick Brookes, writing at MURALI END where the title runs ”How Kamindu set the world alight” It’s been quite the year for Kamindu Mendis. Cast your mind back to January. Kamindu was on the outside looking in – yet to … Continue reading

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Surviving A Leopard Attack in Hill-Country Sri Lanka

Kamanthi Wickemasinghe in Daily Mirror, 12 June 2023, where the title reads “Hill Country Leopard Ordeals and A Survivor’s Tale” … with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Dusk had already set in when we reached Bogawantalawa last Friday (June … Continue reading

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Afghanistan beat Sri Lanka at Pallekele

Andrew Fidel Fernando in ESPN,  November 2022, with these headlines: “Ibrahim, Farooqi, Naib lead Afghanistan to comfortable win” …. Hasaranga counterattacked with a rapid fifty, but Sri Lanka still didn’t get near their target Ibrahim Zadran struck 106 as Afghanistan’s top … Continue reading

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Sri Lankan Cricket’s 75 Years of Milestones: 1948-to-2023

Rex Clementine, in The Island,  25 June 2023, where the title reads “Celebrating 75 years of cricketing excellence,” … with his four pictorial illustrations augmented by other PIX in sep with his words A new controlling body for cricket in … Continue reading

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Vale: In Appreciation of Dr. Sisira Jayasuriya, A Committed Scholar

Sarath Rajapatirana  & Premachandra Athukorala, whose appraisal is entitled “In Memoriam:   Sisira Jayasuriya, 1946-2025″ The distinguished economist Professor Sisira Kumara Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka-born and a scholar who spent much of his professional life in Australia, passed away on 18 February … Continue reading

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Black Friday in Colombo: 29 July 1983

Sugath Kulatunga, …. original submission with highlighting added by the Editor, Thuppahi That** was the story of Monday.  The Friday that followed was a stark tragedy and a national calamity which has left its bloody stain in the records of … Continue reading

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THAT Monday 25th July 1983 in Colombo: Organized Violence within the Pogrom

Sugath Kulatunga .…. in item entitled “Black July Monday 25th” …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi In my last post on the 4th of March, I mentioned that the time I served under Lalith [Athulathmudali] was the golden … Continue reading

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China’s Quasi-predatory Lending to Sri Lanka

Muttukrishna Sarvanandan,** whose preferred title reads thus: “Chinese Lending to Sri Lanka: A Factual cum “Reality” Check. A Rejoinder to Umesh Moramudali and Thilina Panduwawala” Abstract:  This is a response to the Briefing Paper entitled Evolution of Chinese Lending to … Continue reading

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India prepares for T20 World Cup: Selection Policy

Shashank Kishore, in ESPNcricifo, 13 August 2022, where the title reads “Experiments and role clarity bring new answers to India’s T20 questions” Rohit and Dravid have used the glut of T20Is this year to add depth to India’s stocks ahead of … Continue reading

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