{"id":136347,"date":"2024-06-03T16:04:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=136347"},"modified":"2024-06-03T16:05:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:05:17","slug":"tamils-in-ceylon-cricket-1901-2024-by-michael-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/tamils-in-ceylon-cricket-1901-2024-by-michael-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamils in Ceylon Cricket, 1901-2024-by Michael Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tamils in Ceylon Cricket, 1901-2024-by <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78100 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Michael-Roberts.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Roberts\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800000;\">source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/06\/02\/tamils-in-ceylon-cricket-1901-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">DEAR FRIENDS, A major error by a Sri Lankan lady re Tamil representatives in Ceylon\/Sri Lankan cricket in the exchanges in LINKED IN drives me to compose\u00a0<strong>an item in TPS on the Tamil cricketers who played cricket for the island at the highest level in the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0centuries.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/06\/02\/tamils-in-ceylon-cricket-1901-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49618 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/JANASHAKTHI-Book-of-Cricket.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"200\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/06\/02\/tamils-in-ceylon-cricket-1901-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49618 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/sCHAFFTER-1.jpeg?resize=150%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"200\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/06\/02\/tamils-in-ceylon-cricket-1901-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49618 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/MURALI-with-ball-150x150.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"200\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Janashakthi Book on cricket sponsored by the Schaffters, which places SS Perera\u2019s wonderful archive of work on the bookshelves, is an example of Sinhala Tamil cooperation that places sources for all manner of information on the island\u2019s rich cricket history within our reach. While I will be scouring this work for data, I reach out here to aficionado seeking data (and photographs) displaying information on Tamils who represented Ceylon\/Sri Lanka at the highest level in the years stretching from 1901 to 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">We are, of course, aware of the political factors that reduced this input from the 1970s onwards. That development only serves to underline\u00a0<strong>the remarkable achievements and loyalty of two cricketing gentlemen in recent decades: namely, Chandra Schaffter and Muttiah Muralitharan (both from the lineages associated with the plantations and marked as \u201cIndian Tamils\u201d in the census).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/06\/02\/tamils-in-ceylon-cricket-1901-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49618 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Murali-5567-150x150.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"200\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Murali needs no introduction to the new 21st century generations. Chandra Schaffter is still \u2018batting\u2019 at the age of 95 or so. After representing Ceylon in hockey and cricket in the 1950s, he went on to play a vital role as a Selector for the BCCSL in the 1960s; while also participating in the administration of the Tamil Union and its Oval cricket ground (a key venue). As vitally, he served as a Manager of the SL cricket team for quite a spell in the 1990s and 2000s. It is at this point in his service that I got to know him because of my work on the cricketique\/website.**<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">His depth of commitment to both cricket and national reconciliation was displayed in 2002 when he committed a fund of money and effort towards a visit to Jaffna with a cluster of cricketers to playa match promoting political appeasement at the heigh of the Eelam conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">That this cricketing olive branch secured no success was\/is no fault of the Schaffter enterprise. Even the tsunami could not undermine the resolve of the LTTE and its leader Velupillai Pirapaharan. THAT is another story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">That which I underline today \u2026.. with a thump, thump, thump on my little desk \u2026. is the remarkable patriotism and service displayed over the years by Chandra Schaffter \u2026. a Thomian, a Ceylonese, a Sri Lankan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">THIS POST and a Circular that will follow is an open INVITATION to all and sundry to send me items in Word File format displaying photogaphs and\/or information on the Tamil cricketrrs in the years past who stepped out for Ceylon aka Lanka in the last 123\/124 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It is a welcome sign to see a young Tamil cricketer from the Jaffna area now playing for one of the sides in the local short-form leagues. This, as far as I know, is after a hiatus in time [for reasons we know only too well].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/elanka-newsletter-sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly to your inbox!<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamils in Ceylon Cricket, 1901-2024-by Michael Roberts source:Thuppahis DEAR FRIENDS, A major error by a Sri Lankan lady re Tamil representatives in Ceylon\/Sri Lankan cricket in the exchanges in LINKED IN drives me to compose\u00a0an item in TPS on the Tamil cricketers who played cricket for the island at the highest level in the 20th\u00a0and 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