


Given only months to live by his doctor if he does not give up drinking, he decides to write a biography of Pradeep Mathew, who he considers to be the greatest Sri Lankan cricketer of all time.

(Wije) Karunasena is a retired Sri Lankan sportswriter and cricket fanatic, whose lifetime of excessive alcohol consumption has finally caught up with him. They are not significant enough to waste hundreds of months firing millions of bullets into thousands of bodies.W.G. The truth is, whatever differences there may be, they are not large enough to burn down libraries, blow up banks, or send children onto minefields. Explain the differences between Sinhalese and Tamils? I cannot. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease.
