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Hayden for Pakistan: Hayden’s Post-Match Speech goes Viral

Andrew McMurtry in Foxsports.com ….. … https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/t20-world-cup-2021/matthew-haydens-pakistan-speech-goes-viral-after-world-cup-miracle/new Aussie cricket legend Matthew Hayden’s inspirational dressing room speech after Pakistan made the T20 World Cup semi-finals has gone viral. The former Aussie opener was the batting coach for Pakistan at the last … Continue reading

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Gamini Goonesena as a Legend

Hugh Karunanayake, presenting an old article from 2012 once again, with this title “Farewell to a Legend of Our Times” … with “Times” standing for the past inhabited by us octogenerians … & ….. the highlighting here being the intervention … Continue reading

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Sin-Bin for Verbal Intimidation in Cricket

Michael Roberts This essay was drafted on 25 April 2001 and appeared in print-form in Roberts, Essaying Cricket, Sri Lanka and Beyond, Colombo, Vijitha Yapa Publishers, 2006, pp. 98-102. The highlighting here is additional emphasis in 2023 by Roberts as … Continue reading

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Michael Tissera’s Multi-Faceted Cricketing Career

Ravi Rudra, presenting a Q and A with Michael Tissera in mid-December 2023, entitled  “The Michael Tissera Interview – with Ravi Rudra“ *Tissera Brothers – Michael with older brother Vernon at the Thomian (Over 65) Fellowship at SSC on 17 … Continue reading

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Face-to-Face in the Solomon Islands: Two Global Giants

Scott Ritter, in Global Times, 27 May 2022, where the title reads “Chinese diplomacy in South Pacific upends US-Australian security plans” The visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the Solomon Islands on May 26, part of a 10-day … Continue reading

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Sri Lanka’s Wildcats: In the Depths of the Jungle

Uditha Devapriya, in The Island, 18 December 2021, …. Review of Phantoms of the Night: Wildcats of Sri Lanka, by Thilak Jayaratne, Janaka Gallangoda, Nadika Hapuarachchi, and Madura de Silva …..  Chaya Publishers, 2022,… 160 pp…. with highlighting imposed by the … Continue reading

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St. Josephs College in Colombo: Its Multi-faceted Achievements over 125 Years

Lynn Ockersz, in The Island, 13 June  2022, where the title runs thus “St. Joseph’s College, Colombo – a dignified 125 years” One hundred and twenty-five years into its existence, St. Joseph’s College, Colombo remains dignified and spiritually-focused in the Sri … Continue reading

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The Primitive Ancients Arrowhead Innovations in Sri Lanka Way-Way Back

Michelle Langley et al, in The Conversation, 13 June 2020, with this title “48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest” Archaeological excavations deep within the rainforests of Sri Lanka have unearthed the earliest evidence for hunting … Continue reading

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For Muralidhar Reddy: Thoughts on Eelam War IV in late 2009

ONE: Preamble by Michael Roberts I was in Colombo from mid-April 2009 to early June and observed the local coverage of Eelam War IV at its bitter end. I was invited by Muralidhar Reddy[i] to write articles for Frontline on aspects of the … Continue reading

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Michael Tissera: Outstanding Cricketer & Gentleman

Ravi Rudra, whose preferred title is/was “Michael  Tissera 85. The Finest Gentleman Cricketer” … an item with a host of interesting  photographs that are not simple to place within one  site. As  a compromise there I have relied  on aid … Continue reading

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