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    CRICKET HISTORY, SRI LANKA – Notes from a small island Nicholas Brookes on the matches that played a pivotal role in the development of cricket in Sri Lanka. A close up of a mans face Description automatically generated Source:Wisdenblog – © John Wisden & Co. – © John Wisden & Co. Until 1982 Sri Lanka were stranded on the fringes of international cricket: a small island, marooned. Life on the outside wasn’t easy, but Sri Lanka still had something to make most of the cricketing world envious. You might call it a geographical blessing. In the days before planes, the only way to get between England and Australia was by boat. It was an arduous journey that could take up to three months and required a stopover. With the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Ceylon (as it was called until 1972) emerged as the natural point ...