New book honours life of cricketing legend – By Nathan Taylor Source : parranews Long-time North Rocks resident Doug Walters was an Australian cricketing legend back in the 1970s. His incredible performances at the crease inspired kids from all over the world, including one growing up Sri Lanka. Nimal Chandrasena, now a Professor of Botany and published author, grew up listening to Walters’ heroics with the bat on a crackly wireless at his home in Sri Lanka. Walters was Chandrasena’s boyhood hero, his cricketing idol. He followed every match right up until the Dungog product retired from the game in the early 1980s. Years later, when Chandrasena migrated to Sydney for work, he set out on a mission to find the man that gave him so much joy as a youngster in Sri Lanka. In 2009, 16 years after arriving in Australia and in the most bizarre of circumstances, he finally ...