“During my early days, I vividly recall some umpires intentionally used to call me ‘Ranjan’ repeatedly.
Mahanama goes onto explain in the book some of the challenges that he faced in the early days as an ICC Match Referee. Brian replied in typical Caribbean style, ‘Rosh, I came back at 5 am, and I need to hide my eyes from the camera.’ Such was the culture in the Caribbean and the brilliance of the individual he flayed the bowling to all parts and scored a hundred in quick time as well.” I noticed that he was wearing dark sunglasses despite it being overcast and the possibility of rain and I made a casual comment with regards to it. I was walking out to the middle with the West Indies captain Brian Lara. “Memories go back to my first Test match in St. Mahanama’s book gives you a clue to his eccentrics. With fast bowlers operating at 140kmph it’s not the most sensible thing to do, that too in fading light.
Often, cricket fans have wondered why Brian Lara batted wearing sunglasses during certain stages of his career. The book has some interesting anecdotes, mostly Mahanama’s observations during his long stint as a Match Referee with the ICC. Like the first one, it is selling like hot cakes. This is Mahanama’s second book on cricket and it was launched just before the festive season. Sumathipala and the UNP had a deal and Wickremesinghe paved the way for Sumathipala to make a comeback at Maitland Place. To give a bit of background, Sumathipala had been ousted a year prior to that as cricket chief by President Chandrika Kumaratunga and he would avenge his ouster by triggering multiple crossovers that crashed CBK’s Peoples’ Alliance government and Wickremesinghe’s UNP came into power. However, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe overruled and said that Thilanga Sumathipala who was not even part of the committee at the time, would attend instead,” writes Mahanama. As an example, the Interim Committee decided that the Chairman Hemaka Amarasuriya should attend the ICC annual meeting. However, this was a very brief stint as the level of politics involved was contrary to my work ethic and principles. “We were appointed to mange Sri Lanka Cricket due to a prevalent issue at the time, till fresh elections appointed a new committee. Mahanama in his autobiography ‘My Innings’ goes onto claim that Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister in 2002 stopped then cricket chief Hemaka Amarasuriya from attending an ICC Meeting and instead nominated Thilanga Sumathipala. But if they get hold of Roshan Mahnama’s new book, they will have a second opinion. The win also enabled Sri Lanka to collect 12 points in the ICC Test Championship.Īmong those who follow the gentleman’s game closely, many regard UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as Mr. The Sri Lankan captain was Man of the Match as Sri Lanka took a 1-0 lead to retain the Sobers-Tissera Trophy. I like to improve as much as I can, and whenever I finish a match, I’ll go and check where I am on the Sri Lanka run charts, to figure out how many I need to score to pass someone,” Karunaratne explained. If I can continue this form, I’ll be able to get close to 10,000 runs. I don’t know if I’ll be able to achieve that, but that’s what I’ve got in my mind.
Kumar Sangakkara with 12,400 runs and Mahela Jayawardene with 11,814 runs are the only members of the exclusive 10,000 club. Only two other Sri Lankan greats have achieved the milestone. That will see him sitting at number six among the highest run scorers for the country.ĭimuth is hungry for runs and he wants to finish his career with 10,000 Test runs. Dilshan (5492) and Marvan Atapattu (5502). He’s on 5406 runs and if he scores 96 more runs in the second Test, he will knock off three more Sri Lankan greats Tilan Samaraweera (5462), T.M. In the list of most runs in Test cricket for Sri Lanka, Dimuth went past former skipper Arjuna Ranatunga this year and he is currently the ninth highest run scorer. Rahul have all scored seven consecutive fifties in Test cricket. Everton Weeks, Kumar Sangakkara, Andy Flower, Shivnaraine Chanderpaul, Chris Rogers and K.L. Only Joe Root and Rohit Sharma have scored more runs in 2021 although they have played more games with the England captain featuring in 12 Tests and the Indian star appearing in 11 games compared to Dimuth’s six Tests.ĭimuth has now scored six consecutive half-centuries and a 50 in the second Test starting on Monday will see him equaling a World Record shared by six other players. His exploits have seen him accumulating 854 runs this year in Test cricket at an average of 77. The 33-year-old came up with an equally solid 83 in the second essay as Sri Lanka won by 187 runs and a session to spare.
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Sri Lanka’s Test captain Dimuth Karunaratne has hit a purple patch this year and the 147 he scored against West Indies in the first Test in Galle this week was his fourth hundred in 2021.
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