Cricket Australia has shown an amazing lack of respect for the Sri Lankan team and Brisbane fans by pulling captain Ricky Ponting out of today's one-day international and sending him to play in a four-day Sheffield Shield game in Tasmania.
The litany of self inflicted ills keeps hounding Sri Lankan sports in one way or another. The latest among them is the Manju Wanniaarachi affair that took the entire nation by storm. One moment they were cheering him wildly with every punch that he connected and the next they were weeping along with rest of the sporting community, grieving for the loss of the only ‘Gold’ that was brought home from New Delhi.