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The Wettimuny Trio of Accomplished Opening Batsmen-by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Sri Lankan world of cricket was well served in the past by an accomplished set of batsmen school at Ananda College and the Sinhalese Sports Club who were all, remarkably, opening batsmen. The first of these lads to hit the headlines was Mithra Wettimuny \u2013 the second in the brotherly line-up. As Captain of Ananda,\u00a0[<\/strong>1<\/em>]<\/strong>\u00a0he was selected to lead the Ceylon schoolboys in their tour of India in 1969 \u2026\u2026. with guidance from managers\u00a0A. D. Karunananda\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Angelo Rayer<\/strong>.<\/strong> The squad had an outstanding tour \u2013 in fact securing a set of remarkable results (see Ranjan Anandappa\u2019s recounting at https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2024\/07\/02\/the-wettimuny-trio-of-accomplished-opening-batsmen\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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as It was not Mithra, but the eldest Sunil that hit the headlines next when selected in the squad touring England for the ODI World Cup in 1975 \u2013 with Anura Tennekoon as captain and KMT Perera<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nSunil Wettimuny (Sri Lanka) pulls Ashley Mallett (Australia). The Australian wicket keeper is Rod Marsh. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n

as Manager. This was a momentous path-clearing tour. But it was also a painful and frightening one. The Australian and West Indian pacemen were furious fast and dangerous on the English wickets. At the match vs Australia at Kennington Oval in London Sunil Wettimuny was hit on the ankle and debilitated by Jeff Thomson \u2013 who then proceeded to fell Duleep Mendis on the head. Both had to be carted off. However, the Sri Lankan side earned plaudits for marshalling 200 for 6 wkts in response to the Australian total of 329.<\/span><\/p>\n

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An independent observer has left us with a dispassionate summing up:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLike East Africa, Sri Lanka too endured a torrid start, as they were bundled out for 86 en-route to a nine-wicket defeat at the hands of the West Indies at Old Trafford. However, they produced a brave display at the Kennington Oval in London\u00a0four days later against Ian Chappell\u2019s Australians. Facing the likes of Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson in a chase of 329 was a daunting prospect, but Sri Lanka\u2019s batsmen more than held their own.\u00a0Sunil Wettimuny (53) and Duleep Mendis (now Oman head coach) took on the ferocity of Lillee and Thomson and the off-spin of Ashley Mallett with belligerent stroke-play until both of them were forced to retire hurt due to rising deliveries from Thomson<\/strong>.\u00a0Nevertheless, captain Anura Tennekoon (48) and Michael Tissera (52) worked\u00a0 and\u00a0ultimately carried Sri Lanka to a commendable total of 276\/4.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>[2]<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sunil went on to forge another career [as we shall soon perceive]. But Mithra entered the vision of the Sri Lankan selectors and earned a spot (as opening batsman of course!) in the Sri Lankan squads in 1982\/83. This official summary says it all \u2013 \u2018\u2019by then in his early thirties, Wettimuny\u2019s entire\u00a0first-class cricket<\/a>\u00a0career incorporated nine matches in four countries in 127 days. His highest score was 55 on debut against\u00a0Zimbabwe<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Bulawayo<\/a>\u00a0in November 1982. He made his Test debut against New Zealand on 4 March 1983. He scored 17 and five runs in the two innings, respectively, in a match that New Zealand won by an innings and 25 runs.\u2019\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

One could say that\u00a0he was displaced as opening batsman by the youngest brother Sidath!!<\/strong>\u00a0This \u2018\u00edntervention\u2019 occurred at a momentous stage in Sri Lanka\u2019s cricketing history; when it had secured test status as a result of Gamini Dissanayake\u2019s political advocacy on the foundations of previous cricketing successes\u00a0[fn. 3 …\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>see \u2018Dissanayake returns\u2019 below]\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Gamini Dissanayake was a mover and shaker. Educated in Kandy\u00a0at Trinity College, he took steps to ensure that the First Test Match vs the visiting Australian team in April 1983 was scheduled at the revamped Trinity College grounds in Kandy.[4]<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Sri Lanka were mauled in that match; batting first the Australians piled up 500 runs for 4 wkts declared; and then dismissed Sri Lanka twice for 271 runs and 206 runs. Note that in the second innings \u2018\u2019Sidath Wettimuny\u00a0made up for his first innings failure with a classic 96\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>[fn 4]<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

While Sidath\u2019s cricketing career was rather a roller-coaster, Johann Jayasekera has this to say in his appraisal for ESPNcricinfo: \u2018\u2019At\u00a0Faisalabad<\/strong>, on Sri Lanka\u2019s initial overseas tour, Wettimuny stroked a 157, sharing a partnership of 217 with Roy Dias for the second wicket.\u00a0It\u00a0<\/strong>was the maiden century at Test level by a Sri Lankan player.\u00a0<\/strong>At Lord\u2019s in 1984, Wettimuny eclipsed his previous effort scoring a superl<\/strong>ative 190 in\u00a0642 minutes facing 471 balls.<\/strong>\u00a0Marvellous strokeplay and a steely determination to succeed punctuated the innings.<\/strong>\u00a0Wettimuny also became the first Sri Lankan to carry his bat through an innings when he completed the feat against New Zealand at Christchurch in 1982-83 \u2013 he scored an unbeaten 63 out of a meagre total of 144.\u2019\u2019\u00a0[fn. 5]<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sidath continued to serve island cricket in the role of a Selector in the 1990s; while Sunil forged a new career as a pilot. As stressed in a web-item, Sunil\u2019s career path was quite remarkable; \u2018\u2019for 11 of the years he played international cricket he had also embarked upon a career as an airline pilot\u2019\u2019\u00a0[fn.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>6]<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This course placed him in a \u00a0unique position when the Sri Lankan team marshalled by Dav Whatmore and Arjuna Ranatunga won the World Cup in the final against the Australians at Karachi in April 1996. Sunil flew the Sri Lankan Airlines Tristar which brought the triumphant team to the island from Karachi. He thereby etched himself within a unique moment in the history of Sri Lankan cricket.<\/span><\/p>\n

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END NOTES<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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  1. Mithra, alas, passed away in 2018. However, I have also chosen to foreground him because I got to know him in his capacity as a guiding hand at the Surf club at Mount Lavinia when I was a regular visitor during my sabbatical working year in 1989.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Deboo, \u2026.\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/emergingcricket.com\/columns\/ec-rewind\/associates-at-the-world-cup-part-1-1975-1979\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. See \u2018Dissanayake returns\u2019 below. Gamini was aided in his campaign in England by Lord Michael Naseby with whom he stayed for a day or so in the latter\u2019s house in Essex. However, it would also be reasonable to speculate that the English entrepreneurial agencies and government personnel interesting in the investments required for Mahaweli development project [in the planning stages then) would have weighed in.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Mahinda Wijesinghe\u2019s assessment \u2013 see item in Biblio<\/strong>graphy.<\/strong>\u00a0Note that Sidath was undone in the first innings by Dennis Lillee \u2014 who told Sidath later on that it was one of the best balls he had ever delivered.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. 5<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>The grounds at Asgiriya were the site at which most international matches in Kandy were played in the 1960s and 1970s \u2026. even though the arena was rather small. It was not till the 1990s that steps were taken to construct a larger cricket ground with spacious spectator accommodation at Pallekalay in the Dumbara Valley.\u00a0PS\u00a0<\/em>\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0there is a story awaiting its investigator here.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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