ක්රිකට් ගැසීමට නම් ගණන්කාරයෙක් විය යුතු ද ?
Kithsiri Herath
ක්රිකට් ගැසීමට නම් ගණන්කාරයෙක් විය යුතු ද ?
මෙය තරමක් අපන්බ්රන්ස ප්රශ්නයක් ලෙස තේරුම් යා හැක. නමුත් තීරණාත්මක අවස්ථාවකදී , හරියට ගණන් සෑදීමට නොදන්නා කම නිසා ක්රිකට් තරග පැරදුනු අවස්ථාත් ඇත.
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අපට හුරු පුරුදු අපේ “ජාතික ‘ ක්රීඩාවන් වන එල්ලේ වොලී බෝල් වැනි ක්රීඩා වල දී ලකුණු රැස් කරන ආකාරය , ජය පරාජය තීරණය වන ආකාරය තේරුම් ගැනීම එතරම් අමාරු නැත. නමුත් ක්රිකට් ක්රීඩාවේ නීති රීති මෙන්ම ලකුණු රැස් කරන ආකාරය ද තරමක් සංකීර්ණ ය. තේරුම් ගැනීමට නම් ක්රීඩාව කල යුතුමය.
නමුදු , විශේෂයෙන් රූපවාහිනී සම්ප්රාප්තිය නිසාම , ජිවිතයට ටෙනිස් බෝලයක් වත් අල්ලා නැති මහත්වරුන් මෙන් ම ,කාන්තා පක්ෂය ද දැන් පුදුම ක්රිකට් ලෝලින්ය. මේ ගොල්ලන්ට ම හරියන අලුත් ම ක්රිකට් මාදිලියක් ද දැන් “T20 ක්රිකට් “ ලෙස නිර්මාණය කර ඇත. දැන් ඉතින් අපට ක්රිකට් තරම් fun ක්රීඩාවක් නැත. රට දිනා ගත් ජාතිය, පහුගිය දා , ලොව දිනුවේ ද T20 ක්රිකට් හරහා ය.
නමුත් කලාතුරකින් ක්රිකට් ක්රීඩාවේ ද, , රූපවාහිනියෙන් හෝ ක්රීඩා පිටියේ බලා සිටින ක්රීඩා ලෝලියා ට කිසිසේත් තේරුම් ගත නොහැකි , ගණන් හිලව් සෑදීම් - කෙස් පැලෙන තර්ක යොදා ජයග්රාහකයා තෝරන අවස්ථා ත් ඇති වේ. වර්ෂාව නිසා අතර මග සීමිත ඕවර තරගයක් නතර කිරීමේදී, Dukworth -Lewis ක්රමය භාවිතා කිරීම එක් නිදසුනකි.
මේ දිනවල ඉන්දියාවේ පැවැත්වෙන IPL T20 ක්රිකට් තරඟාවලි යේ එක් තරගයකදී [ last match - 25 May sunday - , Mumbai Indians VS Rajasthaan Royals ] අමුතුම තත්වයක් උද්ගත විය.
මගේ අදහස නම් , ................. අවසාන පන්දුව - ඕවර 14.4 පන්දුව යැවීමට පෙර , හරියට ගණන් සෑදීමට දැන සිටියේ නම්, Rajasthaan Royals පිලට , තරගයෙන් පරාජය වුවත්, higher net run rate හරහා , semi finals වටයට යා හැකිව තිබුණු බවයි
To understand the situaton ,let’s look at the POINTS TABLE , before the match.
Points Table ...before -
|
TEAMS |
MAT |
WON |
LOST |
TIED |
N/R |
PTS |
NET RR |
FOR |
AGAINST |
|
Punjab T20 |
14 |
11 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
22 |
+0.968 |
2427/268.3 |
2229/276.1 |
|
Kolkata T20 |
14 |
9 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
18 |
+0.418 |
2125/264.0 |
2110/276.3 |
|
Chennai T20 |
14 |
9 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
18 |
+0.385 |
2272/272.0 |
2178/273.2 |
|
Rajasthan T20 |
13 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
+0.2655 |
1966/249.5 |
1969/258.6 |
|
Mumbai T20 |
13 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
-0.0971 |
1985/257.0 |
1981/253.3 |
Punjab, Kolkata, Chennai each have completed 14 matches , and are qualified for the next round ( semi finals ), based on higher number of wins/ POINTS. Besides these three, only one place is available.
The match , Rajastan VS Royals is the last match for these two teams. There are 3 possible outcomes.
1. 1. If Rajastan wins........... , they get 16 POINTS – and is qualified for next round. Mumbai will be out of the tournament.
1. 2. If Mumbai wins ..........,. they get 14 pints and is equal with Rajastan. Then the next
criteria is the Net Rrun Rate. Even If Mumbai wins , if they can’t exceed Rajastan Net Run Rate, still Rajastan will
qualify.
2. 3. If Mumbai win with a higher margin, so that their Net Run Rate is higher than Rajastan , Mumbai will qualfy .
Rajastan bat first and scored 189 runs in 20 overs. Mumbai has toscors 190 to win, but still they have to score 190 in 14.3 overs if they are to exceed the Net Run Rate of Rajastan .
So, you know what has happened. probably you would have been watching on TV
Mumbai was exactly 189 in 14.3 overs, and one of the the batsman, AR Rayudu was run-out at the 14.3 rd ball. you can see his picture below. He is thinking every thing is lost.
Mumbai can easily win the match. They have to score only one run . If they score one run in the next ball they win, , but the problem is- that is 190 runs in 14.4 balls - their Net Run Rate is below , Rajastan.
All the players and the umpires in the ground were confused. Commentatores were saying various theories, outcomes. Support staff / Players in the dug, ground spectators , TV spectators all confused and didn’t know what will happen next, how the decision is made. Match was halted for 5-10 minutes , lot of discussions, arguments in the ground as well as everywhere.
Finally it was made aware that if Mumbai Socores a boundary [4 or 6 ] in the next ball, they will be through. Mumbai scored a six. This is the equation , Mumbai scored 195 in 14.4 balls , - their net run rate is higher than Rajastan, and Mumbai qualified.
But you have to keep in mind ........... If Mumbai had scored 1 run in the 14.4th ball, they win the match - but they have scored 190 in 14.4 balls - their net run Rate is below Rajastans,...... and Rajastan will qualify.
There are other options Mumbai could have won . Mumbai could have playes 3 dot balls and hit a six in 15.1 ball, and qualify.
( Only I also realised these options after reading some articles)
Now this is my question. Earlier I said,
Suppose Rajastan bowler bowled a wide (14.4 th ball ) ........ what 's the decision , who will qualify ?
Points Table ....after the match
|
TEAMS |
MAT |
WON |
LOST |
TIED |
N/R |
PTS |
NET RR |
FOR |
AGAINST |
|
Punjab T20 |
14 |
11 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
22 |
+0.968 |
2427/268.3 |
2229/276.1 |
|
Kolkata T20 |
14 |
9 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
18 |
+0.418 |
2125/264.0 |
2110/276.3 |
|
Chennai T20 |
14 |
9 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
18 |
+0.385 |
2272/272.0 |
2178/273.2 |
|
Mumbai T20 |
14 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
+0.095 |
2180/271.3 |
2170/273.3 |
|
Rajasthan T20 |
14 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
+0.060 |
2155/269.5 |
2164/273.0 |
Kithsiri Herath
Suppose Rajastan bowler bowled a wide (14.4 th ball ) ........ what 's the decision , who will qualify ?
Prabhath Bandara
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Kithsiri Herath
Wow, good read. Everyone should read this.
Good article, enjoyed reading it, as i did not watch the match. from Pakistan.
It's not about finding the real hero of this match. Pradeep's just the unwilling protagonist to this whole drama. :) The author's idea was to write something about the defining moments of it, which he's done absolutely fine.
Wow man.. 1 of the best article i ever read here..:) :D
Great article.Like Ian Fleming.
Wow. This is like a movie script :D I thought it was over when herath walked out when he was NOT OUT.!!
nice article pradeep / fernando he is a 5 ball hero .... a revenge for 2003 test http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/64056.html (Y)
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/753105.html
England v Sri Lanka, 1st Investec Test, Lord's, 5th day
Pradeep makes his stand
Sri Lanka were left relying on the unlikeliest of heroes as a dramatic last hour drew to its conclusion
Jarrod Kimber at Lord's
Nissanka Rajapaksa
Kithsiri Herath
Nissanka Rajapaksa
Kithsiri Herath
One more ball.
Nuwan Pradeep, or Fernando, the competition winner, leans forward with absolutely no certainty at all. It's quick and straight from Broad. The ball takes the edge, and goes straight for second slip, Chris Jordan, England's best slipper. It's quick and low, like a plane flying under radar, and Jordan picks it up as clean as you can in the slips.
On the half volley.
නුවන් ප්රදීප් ක්රීඩකයා ....... "පිටියට පිවිසීම "
Now out comes a man with a two-and-half line Wikipedia entry, uncoached action, often-untucked shirt, a homemade haircut reminiscent of a member of the band Poison and a Test bowling average of 72.83. On the scoreboard they call him Fernando, everywhere else he's called Pradeep. He seems to have walked into this situation by accident. They don't even know his name and he's walking out to save his country against the oldest enemy.
Neville Cardus.....කැලේ !!!
Nissanka Rajapaksa
Kithsiri Herath
Kithsiri Herath
Nissanka Rajapaksa
KH බෝතම් ගැන කරපු සටහනේ (................and Dennis Lillie , who happened to be the main striking bowler in Aussie side for that match, has won some money by betting for England win !!) ඇති කුතුහලය දනවන සවභාවය නිසා ඒ ගැන ටිකක් ගූගල් කරල බැලුව.
Betting[edit]
At Headingley on the 1981 tour of England, Australia was in such a strong position at one stage of the third Test that bookmakers at the ground were offering odds of 500–1 on an England victory. These odds were flashed on the scoreboard during a break in the game and noticed by the Australian players. Lillee and Rod Marsh believed that the odds were so ludicrous that, via a third party, they each put a small wager on the outcome, later describing their actions as a "joke". Between them, they collected 7,500 pounds when England pulled off a comeback victory.[17] Both men openly discussed the incident and received no official censure or sanction, although some criticised their actions.[18] There has never been a suggestion that the bets compromised their efforts in the game. However, the issue has been re-examined in modern times following the match-fixing scandals that have plagued international cricket since the mid-1990s.[19]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lillee
Kithsiri Herath
Eranga to Anderson, no run, short right at the throat, Anderson right back knocking it down in front of short leg
Eranga to Anderson, no run, back of a length, angled out from just outside off to gully
Four ball for Sri Lanka...
Goes over the wicket..
Eranga to Anderson, no run, back of a length, Anderson across to guide out on the off side again
Eranga to Anderson, no run, fuller length around leg stump, Anderson forward and defends up the wicket
Huge cheers from the England fans with every block. Radeep: "Anderson must have created a record of sorts for having faced maximum balls without scoring." He has!
Eranga to Anderson, OUT, short ball, Anderson fends it off and loops a catch to backward square!!! Can you believe it! Eranga has pulled it off, a snorter that Anderson couldn't keep down for once and popped up a simple catch, what a disaster for Anderson after all that effort and what jubilation for Sri Lanka
JM Anderson c Herath b Eranga 0 (55b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
So with the penultimate ball of the Test, Sri Lanka have won by 100 runs and pull off the most dramatic of victories to give them a 1-0 series victory which is their first multi-Test series win in England. Their players are ecstatic. For so long it looked as if Sri Lanka were going to win comfortably with just five wickets needed on the final day but they were made to fight tooth and nail but just in the nick of time they have pulled it off
What a comeback in this match from Sri Lanka, they were staring down a huge first-innings deficit on Saturday before staging a fine comeback to limit England's lead to little over 100. But then, their batting in third innings, particularly that of their captain Angelo Mathews, was an outstanding effort to eventually set England 350 to win. The turnaround was complete with five wickets yesterday evening but then the game took another twist today, going right down to the wire.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-sri-lanka-2014/engine/match/667901.html
Any patriotic Srilankan will feel excited about the victory , But I am not .
What I feel is England deserves a DRAW, judging from their batting today, The last pair. Ali and Anderson ., together fend off 20 overs (?) , they just had to survive 2 more balls.
That's remarkable and deserves a draw. .
Kithsiri Herath
Dayananda Attanayake
Dayananda Attanayake
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Nissanka Rajapaksa
The pearl and the bank clerk
The stories of Shaminda Eranga and Rangana Herath sum up the Sri Lanka team, an under-prepared, under-financed group who refused to be beaten by England
Jarrod Kimber at Headingley
June 24, 2014
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Sri Lanka's fast-bowling competition finds, Nuwan Pradeep and Shaminda Eranga, celebrate victory © Getty Images
Sri Lanka's GDP ranking in 2013 was 112, the UK were 21. They have a very small population compared to the other subcontinent cricket nations. Transparency International ranks them as the 91st least-corrupt nation on earth. They have only one really big modern city. Their cricket is mismanaged by selfish inept politicians. The team is signed off by the government. They don't always pay their cricketers.
But this year they have beaten the world. And now they've beaten England with men who have lost their houses in tsunamis, been shot at by terrorists, competition winners and a tubby man who works at a bank.
Sri Lanka is a special place.
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At the Sampath Bank headquarters in Colombo there is a round-faced man smiling happily, wearing a polo shirt with the bank's logo on it. He is being felicitated. He is a finger-spinning maestro. He is a World T20 winner. And this man, Rangana Herath, is also an employee at the bank.
Not in a ceremonial way. Not just to beef up their cricket team. Herath actually works at the bank. Doing things that people do in banks. He probably has his own coffee mug there. When Herath sees the Sri Lanka cricket schedule, one of his first calls is to his bank manager. To ask for leave to travel to the tour.
Herath worked there when he made his comeback to Test cricket in 2009. Herath worked there this while he took more Test wickets than any other bowler in 2012. Herath worked there even while he was ranked the second-best Test bowler on earth.
Twenty-four days before his felicitation, Herath took 1-23 in four overs. Sri Lanka won the World T20 that day.
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Sri Lanka Cricket is currently in debt. An exact amount is unknown. It was at one stage supposed to be US$70m. That is to pay for new stadiums that replaced the old stadiums that were in some cases not that old. This led them to not pay their players.
According to Forbes, MS Dhoni was worth US$30m last year. He captained the side that Sri Lanka beat in the World T20 final. In sport, money does buy wins. Internationally, less so. But Sri Lanka are playing cricket off the field in a way that the other countries haven't done for decades. Their support staff is understaffed, undertrained, and at times seemingly not able to do their own research. They rely on the touring journalists for a lot that cricket board staff would usually do. They are comically unprofessional.
This is the first Test series that Sri Lanka had sent players over early to properly acclimatise before the tour. Herath and Shaminda Eranga both came over. It was a step towards professionalism in a sport that has been professional for years.
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North of Colombo there is a town called Chilaw. There is an ancient Hindu temple in Chilaw that was once visited by Gandhi. Every year they have the Munneswaram festival. It was once famous for pearls. And they have a first-class cricket team: the Chilaw Marians Cricket Club.
Shaminda Eranga comes from Chilaw.
Like many in Sri Lanka, the cricketers from Chilaw are largely invisible inside the system. There are Test-quality cricketers playing on the streets of the Hikkaduwa right now that will never play with a hard cricket ball in their life.
Eranga was not playing first-class cricket. He was not in the system. He shouldn't have made it at all. But like his seam-bowling partner Nuwan Pradeep, he made his way to a fast-bowling competition. He bowled fast. But five guys bowled faster. Somehow the sixth-fastest bowler in that completion was picked for Chilaw Marians Cricket Club. Five years later he would clean bowl Brad Haddin with his second ball in international cricket.
Eranga is the closest thing Chilaw has produced to a pearl in a very long time.
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Herath has been in Test cricket since 1999. He invented a carrom ball. He disappeared back into first-class cricket and the bank, and was in club cricket in England when he was picked for his comeback.
There are no billboards in Sri Lanka with his face on them. He's not famous like Kumar, Mahela, Lasith or Angelo. Even Ajantha Mendis is sponsored by chicken sausages. Herath may be a Test bowler with over 200 wickets who has carried a poor attack for years, but he's just a really good player, not a star or legend.
Against Stuart Broad, Herath had bowled around the wicket with a low arm action. Broad takes a big step forward when he defends spinners. Herath bowled the ball exactly from the right angle, with the right amount of turn, to ensure that Broad would miss one.
Against James Anderson, he bowled over the wicket with a high arm action. Anderson gets right over the ball when it's full, and can dangle his bat when it's slightly shorter. Herath was trying to find either of these two dismissals.
Broad missed his, Anderson survived.
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Eranga spent most of the first innings not getting anywhere. There was some swing, but not enough. He bowled a great line and length to Sam Robson, but couldn't get the edge. England just moved further and further away with the game. Even the second new ball did nothing for him. Sri Lanka were all but gone. But then they got the wicket of Ian Bell. It was Eranga's wicket. He added Moeen Ali's wicket to it. The next morning he had Chris Jordan and Anderson as well. They were still behind, but they were within some kind of touch.
In the second innings, Eranga bowled the worst he had in the series. At Lord's he was the pick of the bowling; in the first innings at Headingley he inspired the comeback. But when his team really needed him to help win the game in this innings, he couldn't get it right. He lost his line and length. He didn't make people play. He was too short. The only time he looked good was when he just tried to knock Joe Root's mouth off. That didn't work either. Then when he took a wicket, that of Jordan, he also overstepped.
Eranga's first 23.4 overs were just not great.
It was probably mostly luck that he received the last over. Dhammika Prasad had bowled the second last over. Herath could not outfox Anderson. Pradeep looked spent. And Angelo Mathews had lost his first innings magic.
Eranga was just the man who was left.
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Sri Lanka feel like they don't get the credit they deserve. They feel that when they win, it is Yuvraj's (or whoever else that game) fault. Or the home conditions helped them. Or the other team was just useless. On Monday at Headingley, they started one of the great comebacks in modern Test cricket. Their captain played one of the great knocks of modern Test cricket. They were on the verge of their first ever series win in England. Their first major series win outside Asia for almost 20 years.
And the next day the cricket world talked about the other captain who had a shocker.
Before the tour they lost their coach to the opposition. While here they have been accused of breaking the spirit of cricket. Their spinner was accused of breaking the laws of cricket. Their bowlers were pop gun and a glorified county attack. Their batmen were suspect against the moving and short ball. They would be bombed by the short ball. They were sent in to be annihilated here. They felt under siege.
At Lord's it got even worse when Broad and Anderson attacked them with the ball, and the English players, lead by the extremely mouthy Root, came at them very hard. Pradeep was almost beheaded. After that they were upset by Cook's comments about Sachithra Senanayake's action. And England had dominated them for eight straight days of cricket.
They were sick and tired of being plucky cheerful losers. They wanted a win. They saw one. And they became very vocal. Root's ears will be ringing from his entire innings. Broad's unscheduled toilet break 20 minutes into his innings probably got more of the same.
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This is not the strongest team Sri Lanka have brought to England. They've had Murali, Dilshan, Jayasuriya and Vaas to bring before. This team has two all-time greats, one potential great, and the second-best spinner they have ever had.
It also has Nuwan Pradeep and his bowling average of 72.78. It has Dimuth Karunaratne, who is immune to going out early, or making runs from his starts. Lahiru Thirimanne, who stopped believing runs existed. And Prasanna Jayawardene, who looked a spent force with bat and gloves.
Mahela Jayawardene never made a hundred. Herath never took a five-for. Nuwan Kulasekera was dropped after the first Test. But people kept stepping up. They had batted an entire fifth day to save an overseas Test only once before. But they all chipped in and did it with one of the worst batsmen in world cricket somehow surviving. Their bowling could never compete with England's, so their fielders took many more of their chances. Their middle order slipped up in the third innings at Headingley, so their tail made runs.
It was gritty, tough, bits-and-pieces cricket that mostly was just keeping them in touch of England, nothing more. They just refused to be beaten. They just refused to go away. They didn't smile, or play nice. They clawed and screamed.
On paper this Sri Lanka should never beat England. They should have been outgunned in almost every way. In preparation. Financial. Backroom. Coaching. Facilities. And even in the players who were involved. Virtually every single thing about England should have been better than Sri Lanka.
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Anderson was playing for England by the time he was 21. He's the embodiment of a professional cricketer. You can see his face on the back of buses in London. He has won games with the ball all round the world. He's saved games with the bat. Today he faced 54 balls with the knowledge that any mistake and his team would lose a Test, a series, become a joke. Yet he played almost every ball well. Stoically. Until Sri Lanka very nearly gave up.
On the 55th ball, a world-class professional sportsman was bounced by the sixth-fastest bowler from the North Western Province and caught by a chubby slow guy from Kurunegala.
The pearl and the bank clerk. Sri Lanka is a special place.
Kithsiri Herath
Ramen Saha on (July 20, 2014, 20:31 GMT) - Featured commentThere are two kinds of cricket writers. One, the Peter Roebuck kind. This kind weaves through an unfathomable mesh of words, insights and wisdom to penetrate the soul of the reader. The other kind is what may now be referred to as the Jarror Kimber kind. The pearl kind. The kind that weaves through pearls: pearls of memorable cricketing moments, many of which are often forgotten by many, and pearls of little known facts. Little remembered audacity. Little talked about slices of heroism. Little flicks, little facts. When weaved right, these pearls fall together in a beautiful piece of mind-lace (made up that word from necklace) that, like the first kind, penetrates the reader's soul with equal aplomb leaving the reader asking for, scratch that, begging for more.-- As for Bhuv, all I say is, had Mr. Roebuck still been around, he would have probably started an article on Bhuvi as follows: Greatness 'is a state of mind and also an ability to turn the exceptional into routine'...
Kithsiri Herath
දකුණ අතහැර මාලිංග මුම්බායි යයි
චමිල කරවිට
ඉදිරියේදී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත චැම්පියන්ස් ලීග් පන්දුවාර විස්සයි/20 ක්රිකට් තරගාවලියේදී තමන් මුම්බායි ඉන්ඩියන්ස් පිල වෙනුවෙන් ක්රීඩා කිරීමට තීරණය කර තිබෙන බව ශ්රී ලංකා විස්සයි/20 නායක ලසිත් මාලිංග ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් බලධාරීන්ට දැනුම් දී තිබේ.
ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනයේ ප්රධාන විධායක නිලධාරියා වන ඈෂ්ලී ද සිල්වා මහතාට විද්යුත් තැපෑලක් යොමු කරමින් මාලිංග සිය තීරණය පිළිබඳව දැනුම් දී තිබේ.
ඒ අනුව මාලිංගට මුම්බායි ඉන්ඩියන්ස් පිලට ක්රීඩා කිරීමේදී ශ්රී ලංකා මුදලින් රුපියල් මිලියන 24 කට හෙවත් ලක්ෂ 240 කට ආසන්න මුදලක් හිමිවනු ඇත. කෙසේ වෙතත් මෙම තරගාවලියේදී මාලිංග ශ්රී ලංකාව නියෝජනය කරමින් තරගවදිනු ලබන සදර්න් එක්ස්ප්රස් පිලට ක්රීඩා කිරීමට තීරණය කළේ නම්, මුම්බායි ඉන්ඩියන්ස් පිල සමග එළැඹ සිටින ගිවිසුම කඩ කෙරෙනු ඇත. ඒ අනුව මාලිංගට එහිදී රුපියල් මිලියන 34 කට ආසන්න මුදලක් අහිමිවනු ඇති බවද සඳහන් වේ.
මෙවර විස්සයි/20 තරගාවලිය වෙනුවෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාව නියෝජනය කිරීමට සුදුසුකම් ලබා සිටින්නේ ලසිත් මාලිංග විසින් නායකත්වය ලබාදුන් සදර්න් එක්ස්ප්රස් කණ්ඩායම වේ. එමෙන්ම පසුගියවර පළමු කණ්ඩායම් 4 අතරට පිවිස සිටින මුම්බායි ඉන්ඩියන්ස් පිලද එම තරගාවලිය නියෝජනය කිරීම සඳහා සුදුසුකම් ලබා සිටීම මත තමන් ක්රීඩා කරනු කණ්ඩායම තීරණය කිරීමේ අයිතිය ලසිත් මාලිංගටම හිමිවී තිබේ.
මේ පිළිබඳව වූ අවසන් දැනුම් දීම ඊයේ (29 දා) සිදු කිරීමට නියමිත වූ අතර එහිදී මාලිංග ගනු ලැබූ තීරණය ක්රිකට් බලධාරීන් වෙත දැනුම් දී තිබේ.
මෙහිදී මුම්බායි ඉන්ඩියන්ස් පිල මෙන්ම සදර්න් එක්ස්ප්රස් පිල සුදුසුකම් ලැබීමේ තරග වටය නියෝජනය කරමින් ප්රධාන තරගාවලියට අවතීර්ණ වීමට නියමිත වන අතර එහිදී එම කණ්ඩායම් දෙක අදාළ තරග වටයේ දී තරග වැදීමද විශේෂත්වයක් වේ.
ඉකුත් වසරේÊපැවැති ශූරයන්ගේ කුසලාන තරගාවලියේදී මෙවැනිම විශාල ගැටලුවකට සුපිරි පිතිකරු කුමාර් සංගක්කාර මුහුණ දුන් අතර එහිදී ඔහු කඳුරට මෙරූන්ස් පිල වෙනුවෙන් ක්රීඩා කිරීමට තීරණය කරන ලදී.
Prabhath Bandara
Kithsiri Herath
දකුණට බායි කියා මුම්බායි යන 'මාලි'
ලොව සුපිරි පාපන්දු ක්රීඩකයෝ ජාතික කණ්ඩායම් නියෝජනය කරනු ලබන්නේ බොහෝ විට ලෝක කුසලාන හෝ මහද්වීප අතර පැවැත්වෙන ප්රධාන තරගාවලියකදී පමණි. නැතහොත් ශ්රේණිගත කිරීමේ තරගාවලියකදී පමණි. එතෙක් ඔවුන්ගේ වැඩි ශ්රමය වැය වන්නේ ක්රීඩා සමාජ තරගාවලි සඳහාය. ඒ ලෝක පාපන්දුවේ මෝස්තරයයි. ඒ මෝස්තරය අනූව හැඩ ගැසුනු ආර්ජන්ටිනා ක්රීඩකයෝ පසුගියදා ලොවක් අවධානය දිනු පාපන්දු ලෝක අනුශූරයෝ වූහ. එහිදී ආර්ජන්ටිනාවට හිමිවූ ඩොලර් මිලියන විසි පහක තෑගි මල්ල ඔවුන් උතුම් තෑග්ගක් බවට පරිවර්තනය කළේය. ඒ ආර්ජන්ටිනාවේ ඉදිවන දැවැන්ත පිළිකා රෝහලක් සඳහාය. එහෙත් මේ කතාවේ තේමාව පාපන්දු මෝස්තරය කොපි කරන ක්රිකට්වල යථාර්ථය පිළිබඳවය. මාලිංගලා ගසන ක්රිකට් පිළිබඳවය.
ඉන්දියාවේ නිර්මාණය වු අයි.පී.එල්. 20-20 ක්රිකට් තරගාවලියද පාපන්දු මෝස්තරයේ කොපියක් ලෙස අපි හඳුන්වමු. එහෙත් එහි ක්රීඩා කරන ක්රීඩකයන් පාපන්දු මෝස්තරයට ගියහොත් ජාතික ක්රිකට් කණ්ඩායම් අතරමං වීමද ඉබේටම සිදුවනු ඇත. ජාතික කණ්ඩායමට ක්රීඩා කර ලබා ගැනීමට නොහැකි මුදලක් අයි.පී.එල්. ඔස්සේ ක්රීඩකයන් උපයනු ලබයි. ඒ අයි.පී.එල්. සල්ලි කන්ද එන්න එන්නම උස් වන හෙයිනි. එබැවින් ඇතැම් ක්රිකට් ක්රීඩකයෝ ජාතික කණ්ඩායමට බැරිනම් "අයි.පී.එල්. එකක් ගහ ගත්තානම් ඇති." යෑයි කියනු ඇත. අයි.පී.එල්. වල මුම්බායි හී වීරයා ලෙස පත්ව සිටින්නේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ලසිත් මාලිංගය.
ශ්රී ලංකාවෙන් බිහිවූ සුපිරිම ගණයේ වේග පන්දු යවන්නකු ලෙස ලසිත් මාලිංග අපිට වටින්නේය. එබැවින් ඔහු යවන පන්දුවක් පන්දුවක් පාසා උගුර ලේ රහ වෙනතුරු කෑ මොර දුන් ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රේක්ෂකයෝ මෙතෙකැයි කියා නිම කළ නොහැක. ඒ අපේකම වෙනුවෙනි. ඔහුගේ ක්රීඩා කෞෂල්ය වෙනුවෙනි. නමුත් ඔහුගේ ක්රියා කලාප බොහෝ විට පිළිකුල් සහගතය. කලක් ඔහු අර්ජුන රණතුංගව විවේචනයට ලක් කළේය. එයට හේතුව අර්ජුන එදා මාලිංගට කොණ්ඩය කපන්න කියු නිසාදැයි අපි නොදනිමු. අර්ජුන ලෝක කුසලාන ශ්රී ලංකාවට ඔසවාගෙන එන විට මාලිංග ගෙයි මුල්ලකට හෝ වී ඒ අපූරු ජයග්රහණය නැරඹුවාදැයි අපි නොදනිමු. නමුත් අර්ජුනට වඩා මාලිංග දැන් ජනප්රිය ක්රිකට් තරුවකි.
මාලිංගගේ කොණ්ඩ මෝස්තරය ලස්සනය. වැල්ලේ අයියලා ඒ මෝස්තර කොපි කළේය. "ඇයි මාව මීට ඉස්සෙල්ල දැකල නැද්ද" යනව මනුස්සයෝ යන්න" මාලිංගව ජනප්රිය කරවූ මාධ්යවේදීන්ට මීට කලකට පෙර ඔහු කියු ඒ වදන් රට පුරා ජනප්රිය විය. මේ සටහන මාලිංගගේ අලුත්ම ජනප්රිය කතාව ගැනය. ඒ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ තමන් උපන් දකුණු ප්රදේශයේ නම පටබැදි දකුණු එක්ස්ප්රස් කණ්ඩායමට 'ටටා බායි' කියා මාලිංග මුම්බායි යැම ගැනය.
ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනය සල්ලි නැතිව හතර වටින් ණය ගනිමින් සිටිති. ලැබෙන්න තිබෙන මුදල් ගැන සිතා මුදල් වියදම් කරති. ඔවුන්ගේ ක්රියා පටිපාටිය ක්රිකට් සමග ණය වීම වැනි එකකි. එබැවින් මාලිංගට තහංචි දැමීමටවත් ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රීඩකයෝ ඉන්දියාවේ අයි.පී.එල්. සහභාගි නොකිරීමට නීති සම්පාදනය කිරීමටවත් ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනයට කොන්දක් නොමැත. ඒ නිසා ක්රීඩකයෝ හිතුමතේ තීරණ ගනිති. මාලිංගද ඒ අනුව යමින් එළැඹෙන චැම්පියන්ස් ලීග් පන්දුවාර 20-20 ක්රිකට් තරගාවලියේදී ශ්රී ලංකාවේ දකුණු එක්ස්ප්රස් කණ්ඩායමෙන් ඉවත්ව මුම්බායි කණ්ඩායමට සේවය ලබාදෙයි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සුපර් ෆෝ තරගාවලියේ අවසන් මහ තරගයට පෙර මාධ්ය හමුවේදී මාලිංග මාධ්යවේදීන්ගෙන් ඇසුවේ 'ඇයි ඔයාල ප්රශ්නයක් අහන්නෙ නැද්ද චැම්පියන් ලීග් එකේදි මම ගහන්නෙ කොහෙද කියලා.' යනුවෙනි. ඒ මාලිංග ප්රශ්න හැදීමටත් දක්ෂ කෙනෙක් බැවින් එසේ ඇසුවා විය හැකිය.
අයි.පී.එල්. ගිවිසුම අනුව මාලිංග චැම්පියන්ස් ලීග් තරගාවලියේදී මුම්බායි කණ්ඩායමට ක්රීඩා නොකළහොත් ඔහුගේ කොන්ත්රාත්තුවෙන් 10% ක් පමණ අහිමි වේ. එය ශ්රී ලංකා මුදලින් රුපියල් කෝටි තුනකට ආසන්න විය හැකියෑයි අපි අනුමාන කරමු. එහෙත් එවැනි මුදලක් පාඩු ලබා කුමාර් සංගක්කාර ඉකුත් 2013 වසරේදී අයි.පී.එල්. නොගොස් තමා ක්රීඩා කළ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කඳුරට කණ්ඩායම නියෝජනය කළේය. නියමයි 'සංගා' යනුවෙන් රටම ඔහුගේ ඒ තීරණයට එදා සතුට පළ කළ අයුරු අපි දුටුවෙමු. එබැවින් සංගක්කාර වැනි සිතුම් පැතුම් ඇති ක්රිකට් තරු තවත් බිහිවේවා යෑයි අපි ආඩම්බරයෙන් සටහන් කරමු.
මාලිංග ශ්රී ලංකා විස්සයි විස්ස කණ්ඩායමේ නායකයා මෙන්ම දකුණු කණ්ඩායමේද නායකයාය. එබැවින් 10% ක දඩය පසෙක දමා සංගක්කාර මෙන් මාලිංගත් කොන්ද කෙළින් තබා තීරණයක් ගත්තානම් ඉතා අගනේය. ඉන්දියානුවන්ට ඉන්දියානු ක්රිකට් ක්රීඩකයෝ රන් මෙන් වටිති. එබැවින් ඔවුන් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පැවැති එස්.එල්.පී.එල්. තරගාවලියට කිසිදු ඉන්දියානු ක්රිකට් ආයතනය සමග ගිවිසුම් ගත ක්රීඩකයෙක් සහභාගි කරවූයේ නැත. ඒ ඉන්දියාවේ හැටිය. පකිස්තාන් ක්රිකට් ආයතනයද අයි.පී.එල්. සඳහා ඔවුන්ගේ ක්රීඩකයන් සහභාගි කරවූයේ නැත. ඒ පකිස්තානයේ හැටිය. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජාතික තරග කල්දමා අපේ එවුන්ව අයි.පී.එල්. සහභාගි කරවීමට ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනය පියවර ගත්තේය. අයි.පී.එල්. යනවාද ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කණ්ඩායමට ගහනවාද යන තීරණය ගත යුත්තේ ක්රීඩකයා බව ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනය පවසයි. ඒ ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට්වල හැටිය.
ක්රීඩකයන් කරන කැපවීමට ඔවුන්ට කොපමණ මුදල් ලැබුණද ප්රශ්නයක් නැත. එහෙත් ඒ ක්රීඩකයන්ට හුරේ දමන්නට ක්රීඩාංගණයට එන අහිංසක මිනිසුන් දවසට උපයන රුපියල් පන්සීය වෙනුවට ණය වී රුපියල් දහස් ගණන් වියදම් කරමින් මාලිංගලාට හුරේ දමන බවද අමතක නොකළ යුතුය. ශ්රී ලංකාව දිනන විට හෝ පරදින විට 'හාට් ඇටෑක්' හැදී මිය ගිය මිනිසුන්ද ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සිටිති. ඒ තරමට ක්රිකට් සමග මෙරට ප්රේක්ෂකයෝ මිතුරන්ය.
එංගලන්තය, ඉන්දියාව සහ ඔස්ටේ්රලියාව එක්ව අයි.සී.සී.යේ වැඩි බලය ලබා ගත්තේද මේ අයි.පී.එල්. නිසා විය හැකිය. නැතිනම් පාපන්දුව මෙන් අදාළ රටවල් තුනේ අයි.පී.එල්. වැනි තරගාවලි ඉදිරියේදී බිහි කරමින් මුදලට සෙසු රටවල ක්රීඩකයන් බිලී බා ගැනීමට විය හැකිය. එසේ වුවහොත් ශ්රී ලංකාව වැනි ක්රිකට් ආයතන ඉබේ පොළවට සමතලා වනු ඇත.
බංග්ලාදේශයේ නිදහස් අධ්යාපනය නොමැත. පාසල්වල ක්රිකට් ක්රීඩාවද නොමැත. ක්රිකට් ඇකඩමි සහ ක්රීඩා සමාජ ඔස්සේ ඇවිත් දක්ෂයන් ජාතික කණ්ඩායම නියෝජනය කරයි. එසේ පැමිණෙන බංග්ලාදේශ ක්රිකට් කණ්ඩායමටද අපි කිහිප වරක්ම පරාජය වී තිබේ. එහෙත් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ක්රිකට් මෝස්තරය බංග්ලාදේශයට වඩා හත් ගව්වක් ඉදිරියෙනි. නමුත් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ නිදහස් අධ්යාපනයෙන් ඉගෙන ගෙන ක්රිකට් ආයතනයේ 'මුක්කුවකින්' ජාත්යන්තර නමක් දිනා මෙහෙට 'පැපොල්' බෙදා එහෙට 'ඇපල්' බෙදන ක්රිකටර්ස්ලා ගැන අපි කනගාටු වෙමු.
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..................................................... Nishantha Ranatunga, the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Secretary said that the pacer had a talk with the officials and had conveyed his wish to play for the Indian team.
"We wanted him to play for Southern Express. But Malinga wanted to play for the Mumbai Indians," Ranatunga said.
He said, in terms of the existing contracts entered by the SLC with IPL, Champions League and the local players, the players are being given the option to make their own choice about which team they should represent.
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මහා දේශප්රේමියා තොවිලයක් නටන්නයි යන්නෙ.
Sanga cries foul
Former captain alleges cricket official harassing him
July 30, 2014, 12:00 pmSLC Clarifies
July 30, 2014, 10:06 pmIn response to our article "Sanga cries foul" that appeared in Wednesday’s edition of The Island, Sri Lanka Cricket CEO Ashley de Silva has sent us the following clarification.
‘All decisions taken by SLC with regard to the player who represent the CLT20 tournament or any other decision are taken by the entire ExCo and not by any individual of the ExCo.
Even last year when Mr. Kumar Sangakkara requested to represent his IPL Team, the Exco whilst expressing Sri Lanka Cricket’s preference for Kumar Sangakkara to represent the Home Team at the said event, left this decision at his sole discretion, as per the Team Participation Agreement of CLT20 clearly spells out.’
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සුපිරි පිතිකරු කුමාර සංගක්කාර හා ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ලේකම් නිශාන්ත රණතුංග අතර ඇතිවී තිබෙන හිත් නොහොඳ කමට ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මැදිහත්ව ඇති බව වාර්තා වේ.
ක්රිකට් බලධාරින් තමන්ට එරෙහිව කටයුතු කළ බව හිටපු නායක කුමාර සංගක්කාර ''දි අයිලන්ඩ්'' පුවත්පත පැවසීමත් සමඟ මේ තත්ත්වය ඇති විය.
තමන්ට විරුද්ධව ක්රියා කිරීමේ පෞද්ගලික න්යාය පත්රයක් ක්රිකට් බලධාරීන් විසින් ක්රියාත්මක කළ බවත් ඊට තමන් ගොදුරු කර ගැනීමේ උත්සහයක් ක්රියාත්මක වු බවත් කුමාර සංගක්කාර එහිදී පවසා තිබිනි.
කෙසේවවුද අදාල ලිපිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජනපතිවරයා සංගක්කාරව දුරකථනයෙන් අමතා ඇති අතර එහිදී සංගක්කාර අදාල තත්ත්වය සත්යක් බව පවසා තිබේ.
පසුව ජනපතිවරයා නිශාන්තට මේ ගැටුම සංගක්කාර සමඟ සාකච්ඡාකර විසඳගන්නා ලෙස උපදෙස් දී ඇති බවද පැවසේ.
ඒ අනුව නිශාන්ත, සංගක්කාර හා හෙට (04) සාකච්ඡාවක් පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත බව වාර්තා වේ.
කෙසේවවුද මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් සන්ඩේ ටයිම්ස් පුවත්පත නිශාන්ත රණතුංග මහතාගෙන් කළ විමසීමකදී ඔහු පවසා තිබුණේ සංගක්කාර ඔහුත් සමඟ පමණක් සාකච්ඡාවක් කිරීමට ඉල්ලීමක් කර ඇති බවයි.
තමාගේ දොර නිතර විවෘත පවතින බව පවසමින් සංකාරට තමා පිළිතුරු දුන් බව ද නිශාන්ත පවසා තිබේ.
මේ අතර, මෙවැනි හමුවක් ගැන තමා නොදැනුවත් බව ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ප්රධාන විධායක නිලධාරී ඈෂ්ලි ද සිල්වා එම පුවත්පතට පවසා තිබිනි.
සංගා - නිශාන්තව හමුවෙන්නෙ නැහැ !
ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් පිලේ සුපිරි පිතිකරු කුමාර සංගක්කාර අද (04) ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ලේකම් නිශාන්ත රණතුංග මුණ නොගැසෙන බව ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් අභ්යන්තර ආරංචි මාර්ගවලින් වාර්තා වේ.
මේවන විට සංගක්කාර ගාල්ල ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් ක්රීඩාංගනයේ පුහුණුවීම්වල නිරතව සිටින බවද වාර්තා වේ.
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After Sangakkara’s IPL team Hyderabad Sunrisers qualified to play in the Champions Trophy T-20 tournament last year, Sangakkara had to forego a participation fee of US$ 120,000 after he chose to play for his local T-20 team Kandurata instead.
However, 'The Sunday Times' newspaper had reported the amount as US$ 40,000.
Cricket critiques state that the article written by S.R. Pathiravithana has purposely minimized the loss that Sanga had to undergo.
Lasith Malinga also had to face a similar situation this year and he decided to play for Mumbai Indians in IPL.
In return, Mumbai Indians team has provided the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) with an amount of US$ 150,000.
Accordingly, it is evident that SLC was not benefited from the last year's deal.
The SLC has mentioned that as same with Lasith, Sangakkara too was provided with the opportunity of deciding the team he wanted to play for.
Citing sources, 'Mirror Games' report that though the CEO of SLC has thus sent an email to Lasith and Sangakkara allowing them to make choice, Nishantha has sent a threatening email to Sanga later on.
SLC Head of Cricket Operations Carlton Bernardus and SLC CEO Ashley De Silva both possess copies of this particular email, reports say.
(Mirror Games)
Nissanka Rajapaksa
තමන් දේශද්රෝහී වීම නිසා තමාට, අන් අයට සහ පොදුවේ රටට අත්වන වාසි මාලිංග පහත ප්රවෘත්තියෙහි පහදා දී ඇත. දිවයින වාර්තාකරුගේ හිත් රිදී ඇත්තේ කුමණ කරුණක් නිසාදැයි දැනගැනීමට නැවත ඔහුගේ වාර්ථාව කියෙව්වෙමි."ශ්රී ලංකාවේ නිදහස් අධ්යාපනයෙන් ඉගෙන ගෙන ක්රිකට් ආයතනයේ 'මුක්කුවකින්' ජාත්යන්තර නමක් දිනා මෙහෙට 'පැපොල්' බෙදා එහෙට 'ඇපල්' බෙදන ක්රිකටර්ස්ලා ගැන අපි කනගාටු වෙමු. - අසේල විතාන, දිවයින" එක්තරා දුරකට ඔහුගේ චෝදනාවද සත්ය බව වැටහුනි. ඒත් මෙයට වරදකරු වන්නේ මාලිංගලා නොව ඔවුන්ව විකුණා මුදල් හොයන SL Cricket ආයතනය නොවේද?- NR My absence benefits many- MalingaWEDNESDAY, 06 AUGUST 2014 07:10
The controversy looming over the decision of slinger Lasith Malinga to represent his Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians in the forthcoming Champions League tournament over the local team he skippered, the Southern Express, was cleared by him when he said that many stand to benefit from his decision and it was one he made after great thought.
“Sri Lanka Cricket stands to gain US $ 150,000 from Mumbai Indians for releasing me, another budding cricketer gets the opportunity to fill my place and gain immense experience from this event and lastly I too do not get penalized by the Indian pay master,” commented the lethal fast bowler. ....................................................................................................... |
Kithsiri Herath
ළමා පරපුර විනාශ කරන කුමාර සංගක්කාර
ඔහුත් බිරියත් අස්ථි ශක්තිමත් කරන බව කියන කිරිපිටි වර්ගයක් විකිණීමේ දැන්වීමක් ද පසුගිය දිනවල විශාල වශයෙන් ප්රචාරය විය.
ඔහු සහ ඔහු වැනි වෙනත් ක්රිකට් හා වෙනත් ක්රීඩා තරු මෙවැනි ශරීර සෞඛ්යයට හානිකර ආහාර ප්රවර්ධන දැන්වීම්වල පෙනී සිටීමෙන් විශාල මුදලක් උපයා ගනිති.
ඔවුන්ගේ දැන්වීම්වලින් විශේෂයෙන් ම හානි කරන්නේ ළමා පරපුරටයි. ඔවුන් කෙතරම් බලපෑම් කළ හැකි මට්ටමක සිටිනවා ද යන්න විමසා බැලීමට උදාහරණයක් දක්වමි. පසුගිය දිනෙක ක්රිකට් තරගයක් අතරතුරදී මහේල ජයවර්ධන ආනමාලු කෙසෙල් ගෙඩියක් කන දර්ශනයක් රූපවාහිනියෙන් විකාශය විය. මෙයින් පසු ඇතැම් ක්රිකට් පුහුණුකරුවෝ පවා ආනමාලු කෙසෙල්වල කිසියම් ගුප්ත බලයක් ඇති බව පාසල් ක්රිකට් ක්රීඩකයන්ට පැවසූ අතර පුහුණුවීම්වලින් පසු ආනමාලු කෙසෙල් කන්නට ළමයි පෙළඹුණ හ.
මෙවැනි ක්රීඩා තරුවල සමාජ කාර්යභාරය තක්සේරු කිරීමේදී ඔවුන් විසින් විශේෂයෙන් ම අනාගත පරපුරට කරන මෙවැනි හානිකර ක්රියා ගැන සලකා බැලිය යුතු ය. සමාජයට සේවය කිරීම යනු වැටුප වෙනුවෙන් වැඩ කිරීමට වඩා දෙයකි. මේ අය තමන්ට ගෙවන ලද මුදලට කරන ලද වෘත්තිකමය කාර්යභාරය වෙනුවෙන් මේ රටේ මහජන මුදලින් මුද්දර නිකුත් කිරීම වැනි දේ කළ යුතු ද?
ඔවුන් විසින් සමාජයට කර ඇති හානිය මැකිය නො හැකි ය. මහජන මුදල් වැය කිරීමට සිදු වී තිබෙන්නේ ඒවා නිවැරදි කරන්නට ය.
මෙම සටහන තබන්නට සිත් වුණේ බොලිවුඩ් නිළි ජැකලින් ෆර්නැන්ඩස් රුපියල් ලක්ෂ පනහක කඩචෝරු දැන්වීමක පෙනී සිටීම ප්රතික්ෂේප කර ඇති බව වාර්තා වීමත් සමගයි.
Nissanka Rajapaksa
Kithsiri Herath
Short Cuts
David Runciman
Some professions attract people suffering from extreme forms of narcissism (or as it’s sometimes called, narcissistic personality disorder). Politics is one; sport is another. A recent political example is Kevin Rudd, the two-time Australian prime minister, a man with a toxic personality and enormous political gifts. The Australian Labor Party saw that Rudd, who has always been popular with the public, was their route back to power after more than a decade in the wilderness (‘Kevin 07’ was the pithy slogan). But once in power, the party discovered it couldn’t bear to be in the same room as him. His disdain for his colleagues, his paranoia, his monomania and his disloyalty proved too much: there was a coup and he was ousted. Then, having dumped him, the party found it needed him back, partly because he was its one proven winner, and partly because Kevin on the outside was just as poisonous as Kevin on the in (the drip-drip of self-serving innuendo never ceased). A seemingly contrite and humbled Rudd returned to the fold. It was too late: the party was now on a hiding to nothing and Rudd led them to defeat in the general election. So they dumped him for good.
Can’t work with him, can’t win without him: Kevin Pietersen is the Kevin Rudd of English cricket. Kevin ’05 helped England regain the Ashes after a long losing streak, and the paying punters warmed straightaway to his brash exuberance. His teammates were warier but indulgent. Over time that indulgence turned to suspicion and then to outright contempt. Pietersen never lost his hold over the crowd but the report from the dressing room was that no one who spent extended periods of time in his company could stand him: ‘a complete cunt’, as Andrew Strauss let slip in the commentary box this summer. That, incidentally, was a word that tended to attach itself to Rudd as well. Accused of describing Rudd in those terms, the former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer replied: ‘I don’t use the c-word but I do use the f-word pretty freely and I can tell you Kevin Rudd is a fucking awful person.’) When Pietersen was discovered a couple of years ago to have been sending derogatory texts about his England colleagues to his friends in the South African dressing room (Pietersen grew up alongside many of them and distance seems to have preserved a few of those relationships) he was finally kicked out of the team. But England weren’t the same without him and after an awkward period of truth and reconciliation he was allowed back in. By now the whole team was in decline and when it fell apart, with a hammering in Australia last winter, all the old wounds reopened. Pietersen turned on everyone. Everyone turned on Pietersen. There was no way back. He was gone for good.
The symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) are described as ‘an overwhelming need for admiration’ coupled with ‘a complete lack of empathy towards others’. Pietersen’s new autobiography, in which he settles old scores and acquires plenty of new enemies, displays both these traits in spades. There is almost no exchange, no matter how trivial, from which he doesn’t emerge as either victimised or vindicated. Friendship is there to bolster his status as a superstar; otherwise it is betrayal. Everything is, quite literally, about him. Whether NPD conceals deep-seated anxieties and insecurities that can’t be faced or is simply evidence of a vastly inflated sense of self-worth is something psychologists disagree about. Pietersen makes a lot of his moments of self-doubt, especially at the crease, where he sometimes feels out of his depth. But most of this sounds like window-dressing. He never doubts himself when it comes to dealing with others. If people don’t like him it’s because they are jealous or callous or stupid. They haven’t thought hard enough about what his needs are. He seems incapable of understanding that they might have motives and interests of their own.
It’s a personality trait that the structure of cricket seems to exacerbate. Some of Pietersen’s sense of grievance comes from the fact that the bowlers responsible for much of England’s success (Broad, Anderson, Swann) had built up their role, as though they were the ones who mattered. For Pietersen, cricket is a batsman’s game; bowlers are there as extras to do the heavy lifting. The batsman is alone, exposed, standing or falling by his own genius. ‘When you are bowling,’ Pietersen writes, ‘it is 11 against one. When you are batting, when someone is about to chuck a ball at you with all the energy they have, in front of an Ashes crowd … you are as on your own as it is possible to be in a packed place.’ The bullying culture Pietersen claims took hold in the England dressing room came in part from the bowlers’ habit of berating fielders for their mistakes in front of the rest of the team. Pietersen’s outrage seems to stem from his sense that the bowlers should know their place. Who are these clodhoppers to tell other people what to do? The biggest bully of all, Pietersen claims, was Matt Prior, the wicketkeeper and someone he treats as little more than a functionary (though Prior could argue that wicketkeepers – like goalkeepers – are more exposed than anyone because theirs tend to be the conspicuous mistakes). Prior takes to calling himself ‘the Big Cheese’. It makes Pietersen sick.
He says that one reason the team froze him out was that they couldn’t stomach the riches he was earning from the IPL, the Indian Premier League, where his contract was auctioned for $1.5 million. He has no sympathy for the gripers. ‘The IPL is professionalism taken to its logical extreme,’ he writes. ‘All the bullshit and hypocrisy have been burned off.’ This is laughable. The Twenty20 format of the IPL is cricket designed to favour big-hitting batsmen; bowlers are just cannon fodder, which means they can’t command the big bucks, no matter how good they are. The prevailing cricketing order is biased in Pietersen’s favour while he remains convinced that it’s conspiring against him. Twitter feeds his self-regard and his sense of persecution; social media provide narcissists with limitless resources for reading about themselves, something Pietersen does incessantly. He also scours the press for anything that might indicate that his side of the story is being neglected. He even has the narcissist’s habit of referring to himself in the third person. When he reads a damaging leak on New Year’s Day about his relationship with the then coach Peter Moores, it confirms his feeling that the cosmic order is against him. ‘Happy New Year, KP,’ he tells himself. ‘Look, it’s raining shit outside.’
Pietersen’s book is frequently coupled with the new one by Roy Keane, another inveterate troublemaker and relationship-breaker. There are ostensible similarities: at the centre of both accounts is a monumental falling out with the coach (Andy Flower in Pietersen’s case, Alex Ferguson in Keane’s) that culminates in a brutal dressing-room showdown. Things are said in each case that can’t be taken back and can’t be repaired. But really the two books are worlds apart. Moving from Pietersen’s perspective to Keane’s is like going from a fetid and airless room into the bracing open air. Keane is not a narcissist. He is a troubled man who has trouble dealing with his own anger. He is often wracked with self-doubt: when he lacerates his fellow players he wonders if he’s gone too far and tries to register how they might be feeling. He says things in the heat of the moment that would have been better unsaid, and though he never regrets what he’s done, he does recognise the pain he’s caused. How different he is from Pietersen is apparent from the very first story in the book. Keane is facing an FA tribunal because of the claim in an earlier autobiography that he had deliberately set out to break the leg of an opponent (Alf-Inge Haaland). He has called his ghost-writer, Eamon Dunphy, as a witness to explain that this was not what he meant. When Dunphy is asked if Keane set out to hurt Haaland, he replies: ‘Without a doubt.’ It’s a betrayal. But Keane understands. ‘He wanted to distance himself from it, and I could see his point of view.’ Those are words Pietersen would never write.
Keane is not Kevin Rudd. He’s more like Gordon Brown, a brooding, difficult presence, not someone you’d much want to be stuck in a lift with but a player you would always prefer to have on your team. When Keane left Manchester United he didn’t leave chaos behind him: it was a clean break and the team regrouped and moved on, as Keane did, even if both parties were haunted by a sense of what they were missing. Pietersen’s slow-motion exit from the England set-up has been a disaster for all concerned. The poisonous mess he has left behind will take years to clear up. The same could be said of Rudd’s legacy to the Australian Labor Party. Narcissism may be a self-referential condition, but it ensnares an awful lot of people in its sticky web.
Nissanka Rajapaksa
දකුණු අප්රිකානු පාසල් පිහිනුම් වාර්තා 6ක් අදටත් මොහු සතුයි.
මොහු අවුරුදු 19න් පහල ජාතික බැඩ්මින්ටන් සූරයා වී තිබෙනවා.
ඉගෙනීමට අති දක්ෂයෙක්.
මොහු ජාතික හොකී සහ පාපන්දු කණ්ඩායම් වලට shortlist වෙලා තිබෙනවා.
මොහු ගෝල්ෆ් ක්රීඩාවට අතිදක්ෂයෙක් වගේම දකුණු අප්රිකානු කනිෂ්ට රගර් කණ්ඩායමට නායකත්වය දී තිබෙනවා.
එමෙන්ම දකුණු අප්රිකාවේ විශිෂ්ටතම පුරවැසියා ලෙස සැලකෙන නෙල්සන් මැන්ඩෙලා මහතාගෙන් මොහු පදක්කම් ලබා තිබෙනවා.
ගීත ගායනා කිරීමේ හැකියාවද ඇති අති දක්ෂයෙක්.
ක්රිකට් ක්රීඩාවේ තරගයක් බේරාගැනීමටද, පරාජය වෙන්න යන තරගයක් කණපිට හරවන්නනද, කවදාවත් බිදහෙලන්න බෑ කියලා හිතන වාර්තා බිදහෙලන්නටද හැකියාව තිබෙනවා...
මොහු අන් කිසිවෙක් නෙමේ, අපේ රටේ නොවුවත් අපි හැමෝම අපේ රටේ ක්රීඩකයෙක්ට මෙන් ආදරේ කරන AB DE VILLIERS.
මේ හැමදේටම වඩා මිනිසුන් මොහුට ආදරේ එක විශේෂ හේතුවක් නිසා, දක්ෂතා නැතිවත් තමන් තරම් දක්ෂයෙක් මේ ලෝකේ නෑ කියලා හිතන මිනිස්සු අතරේ වේගවත්ම අර්ධ ශතක වාර්තාව සහ වේගවත්ම ශතක වාර්තාව එක ඉනිමක බිදහෙලු මොහු ඉතාමත් නිහතමානිව එය සැමරුවා. තරගයෙන් අනතුරුව ටුවිටර් එකට පැමිණ තමන්ගේ ඉනිම ගැන වචනයක් කතා නොකර ඩී විලියර්ස් පැවසුවේ තමන්ට සහය දුන් සියලු දෙනාට ස්තුති වේවා කියා පමණයි.
වචනයෙන් විස්තර කරන්න බැරි සැබෑ දක්ෂයෙක්...
