50p challenge – Swanny & Murali

I have an admission to make which will keep the marketers away… I normally don’t post the nonsense which people usually ask me to do so on my “esteemed” blog via e-mail. Just hit the delete button and move on with life. However, this video, which was sent by a James Fick from Rubicon, the [...]

Consistency the key for Sri Lanka at the World Cup

Before I spam you with the first post on this blog after Bradman was dismissed for a duck by Eric Hollies,  I would, firstly, like to thank Subash Jayaraman, who has been very patient with me and gone through the torture that comes with working with me i.e. constantly reminding me to send in a [...]

Murali as VC??

Surprises, surprises! The high officials in SL never disappoint us and decided to spring a surprise and appoint Murali as Sanga’s deputy! Of course, it does bring the question, what happened to Dilshan? Clearly, most of the players wouldn’t have been happy, and not a lot of us locals over here liked the way he [...]

Dominic Cork sends in a good one-liner

Well, as you would already know from reading a previous post, Dom Cork is now in Pakistan (yes, that country where bombs are supposedly blowing up every nanosecond). He was in the commentary box with Ranil Abeynaike (former Colombo-SSC curator turned commentator) and someone (I think Faisal Iqbal) had cover-driven Fernando. Murali tries to stop [...]

M&M – Deadly spin twins?

I was bristling when I was watching India collapse in both innings. I don’t think that I have ever seen such tight bowling by Sri Lanka in a test! Often, you’d see clever batsmen stonewalling Murali and smashing the bowler at the other end, but, finally Murali has got a great spin twin in Mendis. [...]