Hail one of the true sons of our soil! This son of Sri Lanka now is on the threshold of cutting a special niche for himself in the cricketing annals on such a pinnacle that it would be hard to fill out in the foreseeable future. However the beauty of it is that by almost of his own making he has come to his own home town to wear the crown as the bowler who has taken the most number of wickets in the history of cricket. ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men, said the Bard, which taken at the flood leadeth to fortune. This is Kumar Sangakkara’s glorious era. No bowler seems to faze him unduly and the only way in which he canbe dismissed is by something special or unplayable. This was the case yesterday, too, even as it was at the Bellervie Oval few days back.

The dream of any cricketer is to play for his country. I did so first fourteen years ago, against Pakistan in 1993 at Kandy. If my memory serves me right, we lost that match by an innings and therefore, I bowled only once and went wicketless. In Sri Lanka’s first innings, I also scored a duck.After such a start, to have survived ....

Recently I read in an article when players of other countries who represented their countries in the 1996 World Cup are coaching and are engaged in other cricket related vocations, some of the Sri Lankan cricketers are still there with a firm grip over their positions in the team.Then a few weeks later former opener Marvan Atapattu .....