Mother and child reunion – Lankan style
View(s):
Long before the pool for a world tournament to be held ‘Down Under’ was selected it looks as if the captain and the coach for the event have been decided months earlier. Apparently when the elections for this sport were taking place a top official of the sport had confided that the lady in question will be the coach and her daughter subsequently will be appointed the captain.
Could this be a world record where the daughter is the skipper and the mother the head coach?
SCRAPPED POOL
Young players of a prominent sport are all agog with excitement due to a world cup to be held in Bangladesh in 2016. Accordingly a pool was formed and the young players took part at practices with great enthusiasm. Suddenly the pool was scrapped and is to be re-grouped again. The reason? It is alleged that two sons of a former skipper had been in the pool even though one lad had not played school cricket. Also is the scrapped pool was another former national player’s son.
UMPIRE ASSAULTED
Spectators of an under 15 school game between two leading school was astonished when a parent went in and assaulted an umpire when the teams were walking out. The umpire made an entry to the nearest police station and admitted himself to a hospital as well. It has now been ascertained that the parent who had assaulted the umpire was a former head of the ruling body of the sport.
OVER THE HILL?
With a world cup in the offing in a women’s sport the sports chief is being bombarded by two camps in the sport. Four former national players had requested that a tall lanky player should be included in the team because of her shooting abilities while the other party insists that the player concerned is now ‘over the hill’. Whom should the sports chief believe? The present lot or the past lot?
YOU SCRATCH MY BACK
A strange suggestion has been made at a ruling body of a sport that is played with the willow. There had been a tie at the voting and it has been suggested that in order to please both parties one candidate should be the president for six months and the other for the remaining six. A clear case of you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours!