SEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Y9KlsHqho OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nDXdT92Uro&feature=player_embedded as Number One Test batsman in World in ICC rankings
Pic from Michael Steele/Getty Images AsiaPac … at ICC Community Project Promoting The Think Wise Campaign Brydon Coverdale: “Hughes suffered extremely rare, freak injury to neck,” … http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/803763.html
Geoff Boycott in The Daily Telegraph where the title is “Phil Hughes injury: Helmets have made batsmen feel impregnable” and where there are numerous comments
The young Boycott –www.cricket365.co.za 
The older Boycott – www.nigelfarndale.com
Most of my career I batted on uncovered pitches without a helmet. This taught me how important it was to have a good technique and courage against fast bowling. Why? Because you required judgment of what to leave, when to duck and when to play the ball. But you had to be even more careful about attempting to hook because at the back of your mind you knew that if you made a mistake you could get seriously hurt.
I once asked Len Hutton, a great iconic player, whether he hooked Ray Lindwall or Keith Miller. He said he once tried it at the Oval and he got halfway through the shot then cut it out because out of the corner of his eye he could see the hospital. That tells you everything.
Phil Hughes on the way down after freak hit — www.mirror.co.uk & Getty Continue reading
… Phil Hughes with country-wide SMILE — Pic from Getty
A range of headlines say it ALL!!
Nation shares AGONY of an innings cut short — Peter Laylor … in The Australian, 28 November 2014
Why Cricket can go on — Wayne Smith in The Australian, 28 November 2014
Future of Gabba Test falls by wayside as players unite in grief — Wayne Smith in The Australian, 28 November 2014
Modern batsman’s security has vanished –Patrick Smith in The Australian, 28 November 2014
Forever young that’s how we’ll remember Hughes — Gideon Haigh in The Australian, 28 November 2014 Continue reading
S R Pathiravithana, in the Sunday Times, 9 November 2014, where the title is: “Senanayake will not be re-tested privately”
before being exposed to an ICC re-scrutiny. Earlier it was said that on the recommendations of the Max Academy coaching panel who worked with Senanayake in his comeback had opined that he be initially tested once again privately prior to his ICC re-scrutiny.Ashley de Silva Chief Executive Officer of Sri Lanka Cricket told the Sunday Times that the SLC does not intend sending the Lankan off spinner for a Private screening. He said “We will be requesting the ICC for a date soon to re-scrutinize Senanayake’s bowling action and we hope that we would get a date by the End of this month”.
When asked where they intend sending the bowler in question for the ICC study, de Silva said “We have no control over that. It is the ICC which will decide as to where Senanayake would be directed. “
Senanayake was reported about the illegalities in his bowling action by ICC officials and was sent to the Cardiff University, Wales for scrutiny. There the panel who tested his bowling action found the straightening of his elbow to be more than the ICC stipulated tolerance level of 15 degrees and banned him from bowling at competitive level.
Subsequently Senanayake was sent to the University of Western Australia for rehabilitation before the Max Academy experts had begun their work. Once the Max Academy panel was satisfied, Senanayake made a comeback to top level cricket during the ongoing Mercantile Premier League tournament.
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) yesterday took a vital initiative by opening the first ever turf wicket in the North at the St Patrick’s College Jaffna by Chief Guest and Postal Services Deputy Minister Sanath Jayasuriya. The guests of honour SLC Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga, Security Forces Commander General Udaya Perera, and Principal of St Patrick’s College also participated at the event.
The Blessing of the Turf was done by Jaffna Bishop Rt. Rev. Dr. Thomas Savundaranayagam. This turf wicket was a concept of former Test captain and current Chairman of National Selectors Sanath Jayasuriya MP. Continue reading
Courtesy of the Sunday Leader, 26 October 2014 … http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2014/10/26/murali-harmony-cup/
The Third Murali Harmony Cup, a reconciliation cricket tournament that promotes unity, goodwill, teamwork, the spirit of fair play and service to disadvantaged rural communities in post-war Sri Lanka will be held from 29 October – 5 November in Northern Sri Lanka. Championed by legends of Sri Lankan cricket Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene, and handled by the Foundation of Goodness and Red Dot Tours, the Murali Cup unites both local and international cricketing counterparts to galvanise outstation schools’ cricket development in Sri Lanka. Continue reading
Andy Bull, courtesy of The Guardian, 7 October 2014, where the title is “Kevin Pietersen: the book, the chief, his knife, uncovered”
KP: The Autobiography is the most comprehensive act of bridge burning since William Holden parachuted into the River Kwai. But no one has come out of this well … … The main emotions I felt when I finished the thing were exactly those Pietersen says he experienced after his conversations with Flower. “Depressed. Disappointed. Annoyed. Patronised.”’
Photograph: Matthew Impey/Wired Photos/REX
Kevin Pietersen is a shallow, abrasive, man who loves to grandstand. We know this because Pietersen tells us exactly that in his autobiography, which, as all but the most attentive members of the cricket-loving public may be surprised to hear, is being published this week. It is not a book anyone is going to come to with an open mind. The lines are already drawn, and the splits in opinion between the two camps as deep as any in English cricket since Geoffrey Boycott, a “giant among pygmies” as his supporters called him, was fired from Yorkshire in 1983. What a desperately sad, squalid, and sorry business it all is. Continue reading
Samat in The Sunday Leader, 5 October 2014
THE only thing questionable about Marvan Atapattu’s appointment as Head Coach last week was why it took so long in coming. As far back as end-June he had emerged a strong candidate, shepherding Sri Lanka to a historic Test series triumph in England, as well as a 3/2 victory in the ODI series, not to mention of the success in the solitary Twenty-20 – an astonishing sweep for one who was hustled into the job scarcely a month before the English tour, a consequent of the sudden resignation of his predecessor..
The home series against South Africa in July was lost, but both the Test and ODI series against Pakistan was won comprehensively, 2/0 and 2/1 respectively – and with the World Cup looming, commonsense called for the confirmation of Atapattu’s role as Head Coach in the first flush of the victorious Pakistan series in end-August. Continue reading
