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Cricket Dirty Cricket
Michael Roberts, reproducing an article written in early December 2003 and presented with the same title in Roberts, Essaying Cricket. Sri Lanka and Beyond, Colombo, Vijitha Yapa Publishers, 2006, pp 107-111 …. with the title inspired by Lord Superior aka … Continue reading →
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Isa Guha as the Leading ‘Face’ of BBC Sports ….Hallelujah!
Alan Gardner interviews Isa Guha, 29 August 2020 …………. ………. https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/29764563/isa-guha-there-young-girl-boy-there-see-tv-feel-do-similar Having taken on the role of lead presenter for the BBC’s return to televised cricket coverage this summer, Isa Guha has spent the majority of the last two months in bio-secure … Continue reading →
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Unknown Bowlers dominate T20 World Cup Stats!
Will Swanton, in The Australian, 19 October 2021, with this title “Cricket: The World No. 1 T20 bowler you’ve probably never heard of” Australia faces the World No. 1 T20 bowler in its crucial opening match of the World Cup. … Continue reading →
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Vale: Professor ND Samarawickreme moves to Samsara
Piyasiri Wickremasekera & Chandrasena Maliyadde with substantive inputs from Sachithra Samarawickreme The sudden departure of Professor Navaratna Dissanayake Samarawickreme – our Peradeniya batchmate and close friend popularly known as ‘Samare’ – has caused us great shock and profound grief. He was hale … Continue reading →
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Michael Wille on His Cricketing & Migrant Journeys
Michael Wille passed away in Melbourne this week. His account of cricketing life at Royal College in the mid-1950s and his experiences in Melbourne in subsequent decades was, I am proud to say, featured in oneof my defunct websites a … Continue reading →
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Incredulous! Michael Bracewell the Incredible!
4 – 4 – 6 – 4 – 6 …. Holy Mackeral! 24 runs belted in over 50 by Michael Bracewell of New Zealand to post a victory over Ireland Andrew McGlashan A day after the Irish rugby team upset the … Continue reading →
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People Inbetween: Ethnic & Class Prejudices in British Ceylon
Michael Roberts …. presenting a talk which he delivered at the National Trust in Colombo in June 2018 following a brief to the effect that he should present motifs from the book People Inbetween. The Burghers and the Middle Class in … Continue reading →
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Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka: A Contest at the Bottom of the Ladder
Andrew Fidel Fernando with Mohammad Isam, in ESPNcricinfo, 01 September 2022, where the lengthy tile reads thus: “After Naagin dances and a broken door, what else do Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have in store?” It is a knockout match, so perhaps … Continue reading →
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Harry Solomons, FOG and Cricketing Philanthrophy Down South
Harry Solomons, FOG and Cricketing Philanthrophy Down South
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The Northways in British Ceylon …. and Beyond
Fred David Graham, responding to a Query in Thuppahi from Debbie Northway** There are quite a few mentions of people named Northway living in Ceylon in the 19th century and early 20th century in pamphlets and books like Lewis J. … Continue reading →
