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Senior Gurusinghe took post WW I cricket by storm – By Ruhunu Puthra   Source:Island   The late Gurusinghe, the grandad of Asanka Gurusinghe the All Ceylon cricketer, was a sportsman of no mean repute. He represented Mahinda College, Galle and the Galle Cricket Club at cricket. In 1910 he captained the college football team. The late E.M Karunaratne, popularly known as E.M.K, the Patron Saint of Galle Cricket, recounts in his write-up ‘Cricket Down South’ in the year 1929, some of Gurusinghe’s memorable cricket feats. He rates Gurusinghe as the best left arm bowler produced by Southern Ceylon after D. Robertson, the champion trundler. On January 5, 1914, Gurusinghe played for the Southern Province Team led by the evergreen batsman M.S. Gooneratne in the second test against the Australians led by Rev. E.F Waddy, the famous Sydney University and New South Wales cricketer. This was the first time that an ...