email from Daya & Ranjini

Dear Karals,

Ranjini and I were both very touched and very appreciative of the sentiments that you have expressed in your e mail to the batch.

In a way, one kind of forgets the difficulties one had to overcome in the early days, even before Sri Lanka acheived ICC status, which happened in 1981.

It also gave Ranjini and me quite a lot of pleasure and satisfaction in looking after the young cricketers who came over to this country with very little peripheral support, eg physios etc.

When I read your observations I was reminded of our contribution and a sense of deep satisfaction we had in helping the country of our birth.

I was also involved in helping to get an expert opinion on Muralitheran's arm, which I did through one of the best known orthopaedic arm specialists in the UK, based in Manchester. I well remember Murali staying at my home for a few days before we sent him to Manchester for the opinion. It proved very favourable to us and the report was, of course, submitted to the Sri Lankan cricket board at the time.

Just one correction I would like to make, is that the body that I liaised and represented for Sri Lanka was the ICC and not the MCC.

Many thanks, Karals, once again.

Although I am very pleased to read this and point out this very minor correction, I am still not sure where this information, if at all, will appear in our get-together.

Kind regards,

Ranjini and Daya