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Category Archives: child of empire
FC “Derek” De Saram at Cricket Over The Years
FC De Saram as Captain of Royal College’s highly successful team of 1931 — Pic courtesy of Lionel Gunasekera
Savin Perera of Middlesex and England U19
Data from ESPNcricinfo
Full name Savin Perera
Born May 3, 1999, Colombo
Current age 18 years 257 days
Major teams England Under-19s, Middlesex 2nd XI
Playing role Opening batsman
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
A compact left-handed opener, Perera is strong square of the wicket and elegant all around the ground. He earned his Under-19 chance after impressing as an over-age player in the Super Fours series last year and then seized that opportunity with a good showing on tour in South Africa in December 2017. Perera moved over to the UK from Sri Lanka as a teenager and has since become a regular in the Middlesex 2nd XI side.Australian Aboriginal Cricket Team vs MCC at Lords 1867
Scyld Berry, The Telegraph, 3 January 2018, where the title is “Australian Aboriginal team became cricket pioneers 150 years ago this week
Exactly 150 years ago this week, a team of cricketers were preparing in Sydney for the first sports tour by Australians, and for the first cricket tour to England. Before they set sail on Feb 8, the Duke of Edinburgh attended their practice on a couple of days, although when Queen Victoria’s second son watched cricket, he was normally not amused.
These pioneers were Aboriginal Australians. Five years earlier, they had never seen cricket, let alone played it. Yet they took to the sport with such natural dexterity that when they played MCC at Lord’s, they led on first innings and might have won if two of their players had not been injured.
The first Aboriginal cricket team outside the MCC pavilion of the Melbourne Cricket Ground -Pic fr Wikipedia
Chamari Atapattu leapfrogs into the Top Women Echelons
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“Why are the cars not honking?” It wasn’t quite the first question Melbourne Renegades coach, Tim Coyle expected from his team’s international signing, Chamari Atapattu while driving her from the airport to the team hotel. Accompanying Coyle in the car was Atapattu’s uncle, Vernon Tissera, who quickly explained to his niece that Australia is significantly different to Sri Lanka and there was a fair chance she might never hear a sound of a horn during her tenure down under.
An Exemplary Moment: Some Lankan Cricketers absorb Dhoni’s Advice
News Item in Daily News, 28 December 2017, with title “Lankan Players take cricket lessons from MS Dhoni”
Former Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has not just grown as a player but as a person over the years. The respected cricketer is not just admired by his teammates but also his opponents for his distinctive ground play and game awareness.
Upul Tharanga, Sadeera Samarawickrama and Akila Dananjaya get valuable tips from Indian cricket legend MS Dhoni at the end of the third T20 international at Mumbai. Continue reading
Afghanistan in Breakthrough: Awarded Test Match vs India
Bipin Dani, in Observer, 13 December 2017
Former India cricketer Salim Durani completed 83 years on Monday. He had reason to remember his 84th birthday on two counts. First, Team India captain Virat Kohli married to Anushka Sharma on this day. Secondly, on this same day, the Indian cricket board has announced that Afghanistan would play its inaugural Test against India.
Cricket Here, There and Everywhere –It is Sri Lanka
Swimming Cricket? …. well maybe just beach cricket – Pic by Nick Plaister …. https://cricketique.live/2011/04/page/2/
Sri Lanka vs Australia, Kennington Oval, June 1975
From Janashakthi Book of Cricket, 1996, pp. 349-51.
Sri Lanka made its debut in the Prudential Tournament in England in June 1975. It did so by invitation together with East Africa. On the 11th Sri Lanka met Australia at The Oval. It was not an auspicious beginning, Sri Lanka losing by 53 runs. But the Sri Lankans impressed with their batting.
Duleep Mendis hooks 
Tennekoon hooks
The Man behind the Throw that created a Historic Tie: Joe Solomon
Brydon Coverdale, courtesy of The Cricket Monthly of ESPN, whose original choice of title runs as “The man in the photo”
