The Galle Esplanade and Test Cricket — Life and Times in Pictures
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school cricket in olden times, the 1970s and 1980s —Pic by Nihal Fernando
Also see Norah Roberts, Galle as Quiet as Asleep, 2nd edn, Colombo, Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2005,ISBN 955-8095-85
England vs Sri Lanka in pre-tsunami times —Pics by David Colin-Thome …. see Michael Roberts, Essaying Cricket. Sri Lanka and Beyond, Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2006, ISBN 955-1266-25- pb … and 955-266-26-9 hb
The cricket grounds after the tsunami hit on the 26th December 2004
the central bus stand after the tsunami —courtesy of Sunday Times
Pic by Michael Roberts
….. the Dutch-built walls stood up to the tsunami and on one within the Fort died. It is said that a fishing boat made it over the walls and was deposited on one of the rampart streets
