Category Archives: mahela jayawardane

Mahela has a good day

It’s always interesting listening to all the international commentators talk so highly of Mahela, when most Sri Lankans rate him as alright at home and a bit pants away. And then there are days like today when the disparity of his home and away record is as unimportant as Roshan Abeysinghes infomercials on SL cricketers [...]

The blank stare and the pursed lips are back

Along with the shriek of happiness, which for a moment makes you think that a cheerleader at the ground as been pinched in her bum. Those however, have been a little on the low side owing to the fact that Sri Lanka haven’t won anything yet. But the trademark undecipherable stare off into the distance [...]

A good year ?

Mahela Jayawardene is the captain of Sri Lanka. Again. This is generally viewed as a good thing. But there is a catch. He will only stick around in the job for a year. Of this, we are not sure about. In fact we do not agree with it at all. That Sri Lanka needed a [...]

Hiatus no more.

Greetings. We are back from our hiatus. Obviously. Bigger (literally – thanks to Moms cooking) and hopefully with a few new tricks up our sleeves. There is plenty to get to. But all in good time. It is a little diffucult to keep up with the SL cricket news these days. Unconfirmed reports have filtered [...]

Sri Lanka in India

Oh Dreary me. This series has been built up around a whole bunch of mini shows. Tendulkars 20th year in cricket. That’s a long time to be playing cricket Sachin. Lucky sod. The tussle for the ICC No1 Test Ranking. Apparently either team could attain this. Which of course would be confusing to most as [...]