Lafir was the first to win a world title
View(s):Sri Lanka has three World Cup winning sport disciplines. They are Cricket, Carrom and Billiards. The name of M.J.M. Lafir, the first Sri Lankan to win the World Billiard Champion Award in Bombay (1973) was inadvertently left out in our article headlined: ‘Doctor on board to treat carrom’. The error is regretted