I was wandering around downtown Austin, TX; passing by a sports bar, I hear a curious sounding roar. Looking inside, I saw a crown of Indian Cricket fans cheering for the Indian National Team that was in an important match with Sri Lanka. I took this picture of the television screen which shows the Sri Lankan bowler appealing what he thought was the umpire’s failure to call a leg before wicket. The match was completed a couple of overs after this picture was taken. India was the winner.

As a Cricket fan of SL I can’t fully agree with him what he stated about Arjuna & 1996 WC. It was Sri Lankan born Australian ( Dave Whatmore) Cricketer (& the team maeamegnnt) that should get the 80% of credit who had fined tuned & built confidence in the minds of our talented batsmen like Aravinda, Hashan & Mahanam (who could play risk-free innings) & bowlers like Murali, Vass & Dharmasena (who had total control over their bowling). If he was such a good captain & player, why he couldn’t do the same in 1999 as well? As for administration of SLC, it was him who should get the main responsibility for ousting of true, descent &qualified Administrators (that we had up to then) in rallying around with businessmen. His elder brother was a member of this chain of corrupted administrators.Whatever the circumstance would have been his behavior on that day in Australia was not a work of an intelligent person, he had no right to direct fingers at a match official. If he had been from any other country, his cricket career would have been over with that incident.Well-loved. (+20)