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| Have you seen a well attired couple waltzing across the floor of the hall in a butterfly like rhythm – in cricketing parlance I put it down to Test cricket – it’s traditional, graceful and yet more, very demanding. Then you suddenly switch to samba or the rumba and that can be a bit of a body jarring exercise and yet it can not get in to the same plateau as Test cricket – and the authorities have christened it as One Day International Cricket. |
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| Shailendra guides Royal |
 Come next week this time the fate of the Bradby will be known. Royal made sure that they are intent on winning it back when they turned in a reasonably adequate performance to down S. Thomas’ 22-18 to win the Michael Guneratne Trophy at Longden Place yesterday. |
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| The pack is reshuffled |
 Bangladesh arrives in Sri Lanka not too long after fairing poorly against India in both the ODI’s and Test matches. They did show some resistance in the limited over games, following up from their reasonable successes in the World Cup, but the Test matches were a disaster.The Sri Lankan selectors have come-up with a mixed bag in terms of players for the three Tests and three ODI’s. Malinda Warnapura is uncapped in Test Cricket (he is not in the ODI squad), and he is the only player who is on debut. |
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| Jack in the box: Rugby violence erupts again |
| The relentless rugby violence is continuing. This time it was the turn of the old boys of Thurstan and Wesley to show their ugly side at the conclusion of their Segment ‘A’ inter school league encounter at Longden Place on Friday. |
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