Playing Cricket Conventional Style
It was the terrific efforts of Late Gamini Dissanayake, President of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka, President’s Guidance, and Closet Preacher in President J R Jayawardena’s United National Party (UNP) Government, that made Sri Lanka obtain full ICC subscription on the 21st of July 1981. Although Sri Lanka was knocking at the doors of ICC for full subscription for over twenty years, having actually beaten numerous test playing nations in unofficial examinations and the ODI’s, it did not happen up until it was Gamini Dissanayake who convinced the Sahibs at the Capital of Cricket to see...