Asgiriya stadium Archives

Asgiriya grounds, the only international Test venue in Kandy-By Hafiz Marikar Asgiriya Stadium Source:Dailynews The famous Asgiriya cricket ground owned by Trinity College has helped many sportsmen. Great cricketers have played on the picturesque ground which has helped all sports in a big way, especially cricket. Most of the world’s great cricketers who visited Sri Lanka have played at Asgiriya. Famous cricket writer, Robin Malar when he visited Kandy said that this ground compared with the best in the world and West Indies fast bowler ‘Big Bird’ Joel Garner in his last outing in Kandy said that he has heard this ground is one of the best in the world. This ground came alive due to the helping hand given by the white sahibs of the early days. In 1910 they gave Trinity College permission to put up their own grounds. That was during Rev. A.G. Fraser’s tenure as the ...

Gamini Dissanayake, a supreme politician – by Sunil Thenabandu As a young and energetic politician and the people’s representative in the Nuwara Eliya District, Gamini Dissanayake extended yeoman service to all constituents with devotion, obligation and absolute dedication using his characteristic charismatic loom, irrespective of caste, creed and religion, despite of each person’s political affiliations. It would be tricky to find a single politician in the archives of history of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka who was as vastly commended and held in sky-scraping esteem by his contemporaries and so cherished by his political opponents, predominantly due to his impartial and unbiased mindset principally owed to his unprejudiced stance. He was a unique and extraordinary politician who listened to the masses, solved their problems, and touched their lives in a very affirmative and compassionate mode. Anyone who was eager to meet him had very uncomplicated access, irrespective of their ...