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Angelo Mathews in Furious Mood after the Timed-Out Dismissal

Andrew Fidel Fernando, in ESPNcricinfo,  6 November 2023……… where the title runs thus: “Mathews on timed-out dismissal: ‘Never seen a team or a player stoop so low’”, “It was obviously disgraceful from Shakib and Bangladesh,” Mathews says of the incident. … Continue reading

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A Suppository FOR An Innocent’s Arse in England

A Suffering Ignoramus About half a century back I was driving with my wife to Bath when I found myself struggling to breathe. We drove immediately to the Bath hospital where I joined the Emergency queue. The same problem persisted: … Continue reading

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Dhananjaya’s Captaincy Gave Sri Lanka The Edge

Andrew Fidel Fernando, in ESPNcricinfo, 23 September 2024, where the title runs thus: “Dhananjaya de Silva’s Sri Lanka deliver in contrasting conditions to inch up WTC table,”  …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi After back-to-back wins at The … Continue reading

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The Wettimuny Trio of Accomplished Opening Batsmen

Michael Roberts  The Sri Lankan world of cricket was well served in the past by an accomplished set of batsmen school at Ananda College and the Sinhalese Sports Club who were all, remarkably, opening batsmen. The first of these lads … Continue reading

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From The Sublime to The Ridiculous: “Little Akio’s” Breadth of Quotable quotes

Item sent by Dulip Karunaratne of St. Aloysius in Galle then & Queensland now The teacher said, “Let’s begin by reviewing some History.” Who said *’Give me Liberty, or give me Death?”* ………………….. She saw a sea of blank faces, … Continue reading

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Virginia Hall: Spy & Resistance Fighter Extraordinary in France during World War Two

Quintus Andradi as Compiler, whose preferred title is “Stories from the National Archives, UK:  The Incredible True Story of Virginia Hall”.… with highlights added by The Editor, Thyppahi Virginia Hall was born in 1906 into a well-to-do Baltimore family. Her … Continue reading

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A Kilted Scottish Lady who confronted the Fascists in spain in the 1930s

Item in Glasgow Live 20:41, 3 April 2022, bearing this title “Remembering Fernanda Jacobsen: The kilted woman who left Glasgow to fight fascism” Barely 20 years after women got the vote, Glasgow secretary Fernanda Jacobsen became the unexpected leader of … Continue reading

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The Rajapaksa Family face Populist Power

Banyan … with what seems to be a title ” Unhappy Families” As the sun goes down the numbers swell on Galle Face Green, a promenade facing the Indian Ocean in downtown Colombo where families and lovers typically come to stroll … Continue reading

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Former Military Officers in Political Party Campaigns in Sri Lanka

Shamindra Ferdinando, in The Island, 28 February 2024 where the title runs thus: “National Elections: Ex-military Factor”… with highighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi With the presidential election scheduled for later this year, political parties represented in Parliament have stepped … Continue reading

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More about “Pissu Percy”

Michael Roberts supplementing KK De Silva’s article with aid from Johnny De Silva in Melbourne (all three of us Aloysians who played cricket in the School XI in the mid-1950s) “Michael Roberts, writes as follows on his initiation in an … Continue reading

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