Cricket, Sauce for the Goose.

Forwarding.

Cricket.

Butler and partners  were stealing runs.

Law should adjust to make such a run no run.

jksw

From: Dr J B Peiris [mailto:jbpeiris@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 5:39 PM
To: Dr Weerasekara
Subject: RE: Jayawewa ODIs

Mahela in the post match interview had said that the duo of Butler and Bopara had taken 22 twos - obviously some assisted by early take off.

JB

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From: susweera@sltnet.lk
To: susweera@sltnet.lk
Subject: Jayawewa ODIs
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:25:52 +0530

At the 4^th ODI vs England, Senanayake bowling warned Buttler not to leave the crease till the ball was bowled. Buttler didn’t care, and soon enough according to rules, Senanayake ran him out. That is that.

Seems Senanayake is being queried about his bowling action too as happened to Murali.

To me, most of the fast bowlers around, if not all seem to be throwing with gay abandon-  as seen on TV. Fasties are the ones to  watch.

Anyhow Sri Lanka won convincingly.

Sri Lanka winning a match or a series is no longer a 7 day wonder.

Jayawewa!

jksw

Mahinda Wijesinghe
So, the England players and supporters, led by their captain, Alastair Cook, are bellyaching and whingeing about Senanayake running out Buttler at the non-striker’s end. Naturally, the crowd too joined in, and at the end of the game Cook appeared to say some nasty things to Matthews.
The bottom line is, who began this illegitimate incident that forced Senanayake’s hand? In other words, if Buttler did not provoke Senanayake by attempting to take a foul start there would not have been any incident. ICC playing regulation, amended in 2011, and applicable to this series states: “the bowler is permitted, before releasing the ball and provided he has not completed his usual delivery swing, to attempt to run out the non-striker.” 
As teen-aged cricketers at school our (unpaid) coaches used to clearly advise us, that while being at the non-striker’s end, to watch the bowler’s arm and move only after the bowler has released the ball. Seems Cook and Buttler have not been advised on this matter despite reaching international levels. A very sad state of affairs when one considers the captain of the country that gave this game to the world is in the dark. Read the rest of this entry »

The BUTTLER did it !! Josh Buttler must cop it

June 4, 2014

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Sri Lankan cricketers and SLC stand firm and remain focused

June 4, 2014

Andrew Fernando in ESPNcricinfo where the title reads “Emboldened Sri Lanka keep their cool”
As the Edgbaston crowd’s displeasure eddied around the ground late in England’s innings, Sri Lanka were still, at the centre of the whirlpool. Spectators had been incensed by Sachithra Senanayake‘s run out of Jos Buttler – a Mankad which, upon the umpire’s inquiry, Angelo Mathews did not hesitate to uphold. The England innings was already creaking at 199 for 7, but as the boos rang around the ground, Sri Lanka did not delay delivering the final blows. With 220 to chase, this would be their game to lose.

It was a brief passage of play, but one which illustrated an unwavering focus that has become a theme of this Sri Lanka team’s cricket, particularly in 2014. They had had one horror day at Sharjah in January, but quickly shed the trauma of that defeat to trounce Bangladesh across all formats. An unbeaten Asia Cup campaign came as the annual contracts tussle with the board began to bubble up. That saga erupted before the World T20, which was won with contracts unsigned, and administrators engaged in disputes with senior players. Mahela Jayawardene, the man who was most visibly shaken by the heated exchanges with SLC, was the team’s lead scorer in that campaign.

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Senanayake’s mankading of Buttler clarified and defended by British reporters

June 4, 2014

George Dobell: “Senanayake catches Buttler dozing” ….  http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-sri-lanka-2014/content/story/750041.html[/

 Umpire Gough gives Buttler out

There was little doubt what the Birmingham crowd thought to the run-out of Jos Buttler. Boos rang out around Edgbaston every time Sachithra Senanayake touched the ball following his decision to end Buttler’s innings. Already utilising an action that some in England – a conservative country in cricketing terms – believe to be dubious, Senanayake will now forever be cast in the role of villain after running out the home side’s golden boy in a rare instance of ‘Mankading’ in the international game.

Buttler, the non-striking batsman, had backed up too far. He was out of his crease. Senanayake, the bowler, had warned him in the previous over. He warned him, clearly and in sight of the umpires, that if Buttler continued to back up out of his crease, he would remove the bails and complete the run out. Read the rest of this entry »

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Murali the one and only of Sri Lankan cricket fame.

Murali to inaugurate cricket pitches in former LTTE stronghold

PTI Nov 4, 2013, 04.35PM IST

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COLOMBO: Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan will be inaugurating the new cricket pitches laid in a stadium in the former LTTE stronghold of Kilinochchi.

He will declare open cricket pitches developed by the governing body Sri Lanka Cricket at the Kilinochchi central college tomorrow.

Kilinochchi served as the LTTE's administrative headquarters when they ran their parallel administration.

In addition, Murali will conduct a small spin clinic for the Tamil kids who are recovering from the end of a 30-year old bloody armed separatist campaign waged by the LTTE.

Murali, a Sri Lankan of Tamil origin, was the most prominent of a very limited number of minority community, who have worn Sri Lanka colours.

Hailing from central hill country, Murali was admired across communities during the height of the separatist war.

Murali Cup, a tournament which is being currently played with representative schools teams from the former war torn areas of north and east is aimed at scouting young talent to represent Sri Lanka in future.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-04/top-stories/43657527_1_sri-lanka-cricket-kilinochchi-ltte

Old time cricket - email from jksw.

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Seventeen minutes, but worth watching every minute.....Enjoy! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiZMde1MLrA&feature=player_embedded

Cricket - email from jksw.

A little known fact...  The first testicular guard (“box”) was used in cricket in 1874.  And the first helmet was used in 1974.So, it took 100 years for men to realise that their brains could be as important as their balls.

Mahela Jayawardena and Kumar Sangakkara

Click on the video link below to get some wonderful insights in the world of Sri Lankan cricket:-

http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-world-twenty20-2012/content/current/story/585585.html

Kumar Sangakkara - A voice of the nation - Sri Lanka

SANGAKKARA SPEAKS UP - A different history of cricket and pluralism

Mukul Kesavan http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110710/jsp/opinion/story_14208607.jsp

Kumar Sangakkara’s Cowdrey Lecture delivered at the invitation of the MCC at Lord’s has been widely praised for its outspoken criticism of corruption and political interference in the administration of Sri Lankan cricket. It isn’t hard to see why this part of his lecture seemed newsworthy: active South Asian cricketers don’t make a habit of risking their careers by calling out dysfunctional and dishonest cricket administrators. It is, however, the least interesting passage of a remarkable speech. Sangakkara gives us a history of Sri Lankan cricket, specifically of the three decades that his country has been a full member of the International Cricket Council. This isn’t a second-hand history cribbed from someone else’s chronicle: this is a great batsman’s account of Sri Lankan cricket’s coming of age. As if this weren’t ambitious enough, Sangakkara’s account of his country's cricketing evolution sets it firmly in its political context: Sri Lanka’s bloody communal divisions and its civil war. The narrative style he uses to tell his story is the first-person memoir, so by the time the speech ends, it is at once a cricketer’s prescription and a citizen’s creed. With a self-awareness that is rare amongst post-colonial elites, Sangakkara emphasizes the comprador origins of cricket in Sri Lanka. Till the late 20th century, representative cricket in Sri Lanka was monopolized by a tiny, anglicized collaborating class, institutionally represented by half-a-dozen private schools that socialized the children of Sri Lanka’s ruling elite into English. One of Sangakkara’s themes is the way in which Sri Lankan cricketers shook off the orthodoxy drilled into them by colonial public schools and found a way of channelling the idiosyncratic flair that he sees as Sri Lankan cricket’s signature style. Till the Nineties, says Sangakkara trenchantly, Sri Lanka produced talented cricketers who lost with grace. “What we needed at the time was a leader. A cricketer from the masses who had the character, the ability and above all the courage and gall to change a system, to stand in the face of unfavourable culture and tradition, unafraid to put himself on the line for the achievement of a greater cause. This much awaited messiah arrived in the form of an immensely talented and slightly rotund Arjuna Ranatunga.” I allowed myself a small shudder of delight at the thought of Sangakkara saying this in a lecture about the spirit of cricket to the guardians of cricketing decorum at the MCC, since Ranatunga pretty much tore up Auntie Mary(lebone)’s manual of cricketing etiquette in the course of an eventful career as Sri Lanka’s captain. From wagging his finger at the umpire, Ross Emerson, when he no-balled Muralitharan for chucking to turning his lawyers loose on the ICC when it tried to fine him, Ranatunga did everything he could to intimidate people that he thought were trying to push Sri Lanka around... and he succeeded. As a spectator I thought he was magnificent when he drew a line near the stumps and forced the grandstanding Ross Emerson to stand where he, Ranatunga, wanted him to, after he had no-balled Murali, so it’s good to know that Sangakkara sees him as the man who turned Sri Lankan cricket around. The spirit of cricket comes in many distillations and the sort that Ranatunga dispensed was a potent brew. Sangakkara is so well-spoken, so much the fluent barrister, that the MCC’s membership embraced him as one of their own and rose to give him a standing ovation. What they didn’t realize was that they were applauding a speech about the spirit of cricket in which that smiling enforcer, Arjuna Ranatunga, had been formally canonized as Sri Lankan cricket’s patron saint. It was a rhetorical coup. But the great matter of Sangakkara’s speech is the business of living in a violent and divided society during the Eighties and Nineties and the role cricket played in giving Sri Lankans hope through a horrible time. He starts telling this story with a startling flourish: he recalls the anti-Tamil pogrom of 1983 as a time of rapt happiness. He was six years old at the time so when Tamil friends of his father and their families came for refuge to Sangakkara’s home, he was delighted because he had friends to play with all day long for many days on end. This vicious, politically sponsored pogrom and the secessionist terror that it helped spawn nearly tore Sri Lanka apart. It was in this uncertain world, a world in which parents travelled in separate buses to make sure that their children weren’t comprehensively orphaned by a random explosion, that Ranatunga gathered the players who would give Sri Lankans something to live for. Sangakkara counts them off: Sanath, the provincial from Matara, Murali, the Tamil from Kandy, Kaluwitharana, Aravinda de Silva, not one them from the posh public schools that had been the nurseries of Sri Lankan cricket, but originals each one, who would go on to win the 1996 World Cup for Sri Lanka and make cricket both a mass sport and Sri Lanka’s national game. But before that happened, something was needed to fuse the team into a single unit and forge a bond between the team and Sri Lanka’s people. That something, of course, was the no-balling of Muralitharan by Darrell Hair on Boxing Day at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1995 which rallied all Sri Lankans in collective indignation. It’s this ability to make big schematic connections that makes Sangakkara a compelling historian. In his telling of this story, the World Cup win makes the Sri Lankan team a microcosm of Sri Lanka’s better self: “Our cricket embodied everything in our lives, our laughter and tears, our hospitality our generosity, our music our food and drink. It was normality and hope and inspiration in a war-ravaged island. In it was our culture and heritage, enriched by our myriad ethnicities and religions. In it we were untouched, at least for a while, by petty politics and division. It is indeed a pity that life is not cricket. If it were we would not have seen the festering wounds of an ignorant war.” Sangakkara’s experience of what cricket meant to a small, racked nation and his ability to evoke both the darkness of the time and the role of the team as a kind of beacon, make his belief that Sri Lankan cricketers are the keepers of a sacred trust seem deeply felt, not just inflated windbaggery. The Sri Lankan team in its diversity becomes a blueprint for a pluralist Sri Lanka, and cricket becomes, potentially, an agent of reconciliation at the end of a brutal war. Time and again Sangakkara returns to Murali in his speech, not just as a symbol for a diverse Sri Lanka, but as a moral actor whose extraordinary relief work after the tsunami exemplifies the team’s responsibility to its people. Even the frightening and near-lethal attack on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore becomes a way of understanding at first hand the violence suffered by every section of Sri Lankan society during the civil war. It is in the context of this near- religious conception of cricket’s role in the life of his island nation, that Sangakkara attacks the administrators who have milked the game since the World Cup victory in 1996. This isn’t what his political masters in Colombo wanted to hear; already the sports minister has condemned Sangakkara speech and ordered an inquiry into his conduct. Given the controversy and criticism that Channel 4’s film, Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, has stirred up, the regime of the president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, needs bad publicity like a hole in the head. But having seen disaffected Tamils protesting during Sri Lanka’s English tour, Sangakkara was reminded that a great game, which ought to have been used as a catalyst for national reconciliation, had been reduced to a cash cow for greedy men and was moved to speak up. He ends his speech with a resounding affirmation of cricket as the embodiment of Sri Lanka’s pluralism: “Fans of different races, castes, ethnicities and religions who together celebrate their diversity by uniting for a common national cause. They are my foundation, they are my family. I will play my cricket for them. Their spirit is the true spirit of cricket. With me are all my people. I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always, proudly Sri Lankan.” Sangakkara almost certainly overstates cricket’s capacity to embody diversity and transcend division. Some might find his quasi-mystical identification with Sri Lankans of all sorts a little over the top. But his speech has one thing going for it: this isn’t Lalit Modi speaking. Or Sharad Pawar. Unlike India’s mute cricketing maestros, too busy counting their money to think about cricket and its connection with the world, this is the testament of a great cricketer trying to be a good citizen. Even (or especially) in Kalyug, that’s reason enough to listen.

Buddy Reid - Referance in the Ceylon Observer.

Hello Batch-mates, Here is a write up on Buddy Reid in the Sunday Observer, brought to my notice by Chandra Pitigala. You could respond to Buddy. His email address is buddygreid@hotmail.com Philip Sunday, 14 March 2004

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Reid brothers pleased with improvement of Sri Lanka cricket by A. C. DE SILVA The name of Reid to the Thomians is a household one as the Reids' have played their hearts out for the Thomians in the 125 years that the Royal-Thomian cricket match has been played. Five brothers - Claude, Ronald, Dr. Buddy, Bryan (Barney) and 'Tiny' have donned the Thomian blazer over the years and when anyone talks of S. Thomas' cricket, the Reids would figure prominently. The Reid brothers are known cricketers, but two of them - Dr. Buddy and Barney have also excelled in Table Tennis, not only in Sri Lanka but overseas as well. The Reids are also humane to a great extent and on this trip to witness the historic 125th Royal-Thomian, they kept a date with one of their old friends who is unfortunately held indoors with an illness that has stopped him from watching cricket matches. Abu Fuard - a former star cricketer in the Sri Lanka team is fast losing his sight and has to be wheeled even to answer a telephone call. Claude Reid is the eldest of the Reid clan and he was the wicketkeeper of S. Thomas' in 1955. He was a recognised batsman too and with Dan Piachaud averted the follow-on for S. Thomas' in the 'Big Match'. Then on the second day with contributions by Dennis Ferdinands and Asoka Perera, S. Thomas' were able to force a draw. He then played for BRC from 1956 to 1967 and then went over to Australia. Before going to Australia in 1960 he played under late Vernon Prins and he also played for Sri Lanka under C. I. Gunasekera and Michael Tissera. He scored a century for Sri Lanka Board XI against Indian State Bank team that included Milkha Singh. He also captained the Mercantile team in the quadrangular tournament in the team that included P. I. Pieris and Stanley Jayasinghe. Having had his early lessons at S. Thomas' under late Lassie Abeywardena and Orville Abeynaike, Claude came under late Shelton Gauder in the first eleven and that where he had to concentrate in wicketkeeping and go lower down the order in batting. He has been associated with cricket for 52 years and headed the batting averages in the 1967-68 Australian League season. Speaking of cricket in general in Sri Lanka, Claude said that it is much easier these days as the Royal-Thomian is a three-day affair quite in contrast to the two-day affair those days. There was a sense of urgency then as declarations had to be made to make it interesting. Claude Reid was of the opinion that Sri Lanka should have got international status in 1967 or so. Though late, we have done well in fits and starts on the International scene. Then Dr. Buddy Reid started his cricket in the under 12 age group at S. Thomas' and cricket continued till he left Sri Lanka. He retired from cricket in 1971 and left Sri Lanka in 1973. Because of his studies in Australia, he didn't play cricket for sometime, but in 1984, he played suburban cricket which is a step lower than district cricket. This was solely for the purpose of getting some sort of exercise. He played for Sri Lanka from 1964 to 1971. He captained one match and played under C. I. Gunasekera (1963 vs Australia) and again in 1964 under Michael Tissera against Pakistan. He has two memorable fifties against England. With Ranjit Fernando made a record partnership of 121 in 1968 against England that included David Brown, Derek Underwood and Pat Pocock. Both scored half centuries. Then in the unofficial Test also against England, the pair had a record partnership. The record there was 119 in the second innings in the three-day match. The first one was 50-over match. That second record stood for 15 years. Dr. Buddy captained the University for one year, was vice-captain in 1962-1963 where the University won by .02 against Colts (that'd just 4 runs). Then in 1964, University were runners-up to Bloomfield and though they didn't lose any matches. They lost on bonus points. Speaking of cricket here, Buddy Reid said that technique-wise, it is the same. 'I think overall, the fielding is better, but speaking of the Royal-Thomian, it is played at a much slower pace as it is a three-day game. It may be a good thing as it can be a move to nurture players for the future for Test cricket. The attraction had, I think lost a little, but it may be towards the development of better standards. The bowling was steady and the spinners didn't bowl many loose balls but flighted the ball a little more than usual. In general, the cricket is on a higher level than when he played, Dr. Buddy Reid said. The fielding is somewhat brilliant now compared to what it was those days. The Sri Lankans should study every opposing player because it takes only a tiny detail between victory and defeat. The fourth of the clan is Bryan Reid (Barney) who played for S. Thomas' from 1963 to 1965. He had the outstanding figures of 8 wickets for 2 runs against St. Sebastian's in 1962 at Mount Lavinia. After leaving school, he played for the Board against Hyderabad Blues XI that included players like M. L. Jaisimha, Abbas Ali Baig, Eknath Solkar. Barney Reid left Sri Lanka at the age of 21 years in 1968. He played Premier Grade cricket as player, captain and then as coach for around 15 years. He is also an umpire in Premier cricket first eleven in Melbourne. Barney Reid felt that cricket in the country is going on smoothly. Going back to 1982 when he saw Aravinda de Silva perform in Australia in Premier cricket where Aravinda got around 15 runs. However, there was talent in the boy and I picked him as a player of the future and he has fulfilled my expectations," said Barney Reid. He feels that the fielding standards in Sri Lanka has improved, but was wondering whether the bowling has improved. This comment he made at the end of the first day's play in the 125th Royal-Thomian cricket match at the SSC grounds. The Thomians had a great opportunity on the first day as the wicket helped movement, but the Thomians tended to bowl a little too far outside the off-stump in the early overs. They also should have attacked a little more once the wicket died down. He advised the young cricketers: Basically cricket is a disciplined game, ones got to discipline oneself as a batsman or a bowler. Play within your limitations. Especially, the youngsters should play the longer game, it is the only way that one can develop one's batting," he said. At junior level, its participating and giving a chance to all, otherwise a team will have good players and they will dominate with bat and ball and everyone else will have to just stand around fielding and not doing much. Besides being a cricketer, he was also a known table tennis player of class. With Feoze Nilam, he was the Indian TT doubles champion. The pair were runners-up in the Junior Nationals in Bombay. Two other brothers Ronald Reid No. 2 among the clan made the historic score of 158 not out in 1956 to hold the Royal-Thomian record until it was broken in 1972 by Duleep Mendis - 184. There was also "Tiny" Reid, the youngest of the clan who played for S. Thomas'.