french cricket

being told, by all and sundry, to watch what i write in this space whilst being a sign of the times is not conducive to free style writing. hence the long silence. additionally, some of you yahoos grumble that it is easier to receive the mbb ( or the mwb or the fy’s or the sr’s) by email. meaning that i should contribute my piece in making you, dear reader, lazy. done that.

looking over what i had written in the past, nothing much seems to have changed. in sri lanka these days one feels like a character in asterix in that we fear that the sky will fall on us. 24 hours ago and colombo was abuzz with news of the return of the biggles brigade. quite dimmed the cricket fiesta for a wee bit it did. not for mahinda though who’s flown the coop to be present at the world cup finals in barbados. as if our lads need the additional pressure. perhaps HE needs the photo op. perhaps not.

the sri lankan government are on a high with what appears to be successes with the military push in the east. not much of news or interest for that matter, on refugees and the effect of these measures on civilians. not that any one is interested. the war will be over shortly is the general belief among the general populace – singhalese that is. being a party pooper i should say that i very much doubt it. what irks me is that after all these years there is still no attempt to address the root causes of the war – the aspirations of the tamils. today, the average singhalese believes that nothing should be given or is needed to be given.

i wrote sometime ago that somewhere in sri lanka on some dusty playing field is a young lad ( or lass, i hasten to add, in case am reads this) dreaming of being a sanatha jayasuriya but who has a knack of cutting through knots. he captains his little cricket team and is very unorthodox in his approach to cricket and life in general.

i hope we do win the cricket world cup of 2007. once again as in 1996 the country is briefly united and maybe, just maybe, we can take it further.