The Gunasekara Lineage in Ceylon Cricket – By Michael Roberts Source : thuppahis Alston Mahadevan is with Johann Gunasekara …. In FACEBOOK …………… https://www.facebook.com/groups/277933739075780/?multi_permalinks=923211474548000&ref=share …………………….. Cricketing dynasties of Ceylon Part 1 – The Gunasekaras When Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon, cricket was nurtured by many outstanding cricketers and administrators including the three cricketing families, the Gunasekaras, the De Sarams and the Kelaarts. They had a significant impact from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1960s. Dr Churchill Hector Gunasekara captained Royal College in 1912 and joined Cambridge University to study medicine. He missed becoming a Cambridge Blue due to WW1 but played county cricket when Sir Pelham “Plum” Warner, who captained Middlesex and England, invited him to play for Middlesex. Dr C H Gunasekara helped Dr John Rockwood to form the Ceylon Cricket Association in 1922 and formalise the cricket administration. He returned to Ceylon and captained the country in the 1930s. His brother D.B (Danny) ...
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A Ceylon Cricket Eleven in Late 1958 …. Its Ethnic Mix-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Having come across “a drenching cricket story” from late in the year 1958 in my CRICKETIQUE website, let me place it within THUPPAHI for reflection because the Cricketique site can be visited and read… BUT is not readily open for comments or visited much. The LEAD PHOTO is of considerable significance because of the ethnic mix in Sri Lankan team — inclusive of a Malay man and another with Colombo Chetty lineage roots. ITEM originally in CRICKETIQUE, 22 December 2020, with this title “Facing Peter May’s MCC Side in Ceylon in 1958” A Sri Lankan enthusiast sent me this photograph of a Ceylon Eleven chosen to face a visiting England Team in 1958. I have sought out background information from two of those framed within this picture ….. and seek more data (and hopefully photographs) from cricketing aficianados with good memories and ...
