Reigning Sri Lanka Amateur Golf champion Mithun Perera will follow his father’s footsteps when he takes part at the Australian Open Golf tournament which will take place from December 3-6.
Mithun’s father -- legendary Nandasena Perera -- was the first ever Sri Lankan to take part in the Australian open prior to him turning professional in the afterglow of the ‘Silver” at the Beijing Asian Games in 1991.
I often wonder when lyricist Joe Darion wrote the song for the musical Man from La Mancha “To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe” if he knew anything about cricket and had played the game at international level in India.