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Minister Lokuge refutes Ranatunga allegations
A furious Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge came out strongly to announce that he is willing at anytime to counter the allegations ousted SLC Interim Committee Chairman Arjuna Ranatunga made in Parliament on Thursday.
 
The Lankan passion for cricket
The true passion for the game of cricket in Sri Lanka did not come after we won the World Cup in 1996. In reality it is more than a century old. Henry W. Cave's 'Book of Ceylon' 1908 describes cricket in Sri Lanka: -- "At the Galle Face Sports Club cricket ground a reliable and astonishingly good wicket is always available by the use of a strip of coir matting. Cricket in Ceylon is a perennial game and has indeed become the national game of the country, the Ceylonese being remarkably proficient in it.
 
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