Marvan Atapattu dropped his biggest bombshell on chief selector Asantha de Mel and his three member committee accusing them of making Sri Lanka's cricket an international laughing stock as the team were left struggling to save the first Test against Australia here in Melbourne yesterday.
The first test against the Australians is in its second day as I write and the battle is on. Australia has piled on a 500 plus score and we are two down with three days to play. Most reports say the Aussies have a stranglehold on the game but I would dare to say it is excitingly poised.
Like any other country in the Indian sub-continent the Sri Lankans are also a nation who is cricket crazy. At the same time, people in this tiny cricket loving nation are highly literate and what is written or given in frozen action on the subject is quickly devoured with great enthusiasm and that has been a great passion of them.
Thirty two year old Anuruddha Ratnayake can be seen as one of the most gifted sportsmen to have emerged in recent times. His rise in the boxing arena has not been a bed of roses. He began his academic career in a village school near his home namely Kumbalwathumulla MV in Pilimatalawa where he studied up to the maximum which is grade five before moving over to Peradeniya Central in 1986.
Marvan Atapattu dropped his biggest bombshell on chief selector Asantha de Mel and his three member committee accusing them of making Sri Lanka's cricket an international laughing stock as the team were left struggling to save the first Test against Australia here in Melbourne yesterday.
The first test against the Australians is in its second day as I write and the battle is on. Australia has piled on a 500 plus score and we are two down with three days to play. Most reports say the Aussies have a stranglehold on the game but I would dare to say it is excitingly poised. 
Like any other country in the Indian sub-continent the Sri Lankans are also a nation who is cricket crazy. At the same time, people in this tiny cricket loving nation are highly literate and what is written or given in frozen action on the subject is quickly devoured with great enthusiasm and that has been a great passion of them. 
Thirty two year old Anuruddha Ratnayake can be seen as one of the most gifted sportsmen to have emerged in recent times. His rise in the boxing arena has not been a bed of roses. He began his academic career in a village school near his home namely Kumbalwathumulla MV in Pilimatalawa where he studied up to the maximum which is grade five before moving over to Peradeniya Central in 1986. 