{"id":56779,"date":"2021-01-23T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T13:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=56779"},"modified":"2021-01-23T13:52:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T13:52:31","slug":"the-sangakkaras-erudite-charitable-at-home-and-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/the-sangakkaras-erudite-charitable-at-home-and-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sangakkaras Erudite &#038; Charitable: At Home and Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">The Sangakkaras Erudite &amp; Charitable: At Home and Abroad<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56780\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sangakkara-m-and-p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"161\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56781\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/lounge-keyt-painting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #993366;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2021\/01\/21\/the-sangakkaras-erudite-charitable-at-home-and-abroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><strong>An Accidental Encounter \u2026.\u00a0 and An Illuminating Outcome<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">When I was in Sri Lanka at some point in the late 1990s on research work, my cricketing links with such individuals as PI Pieris and Michael Tissera encouraged me to take in some of the international cricket matches taking place in the capital city of Colombo. On one occasion I witnessed a match at the Khettarama Stadium where Sri Lanka A took on a West Indian side. I was in the BCCSL section at midwicket where the spectators were few and quite interspersed. I heard an elderly gentleman behind me explaining some of the finer points of the unfolding match to his wife beside him. At one point I turned round and amiably indicated that he understood the finer points of cricket. It turned out that he was a venerable lawyer from Kandy named Kshemananda Sangakkara. Kshema and Kumari Sangakkara were watching their son Kumar playing for the A team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">This amiable set of exchanges proved fortuitous in several ways. I was able to scrounge a lift back to Wellawatte and avoid the auto-rickshaw \u2018haul\u2019 that was my mode of transport. More vitally, it provided me with an academic goldmine when \u2013 much later and down the track \u2013 I discovered that the Sangakkaras had acquired the urban ancestral property owned by Hannadige Louis Pieris who was a younger brother of Jeronis Pieris \u2013 the centre of a historical work I had produced in 1976 after discovering a set of Jeronis Pieris\u2019s letters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">This chance encounter bore even richer fruit. Sometime later, when I was in Kandy for a spell, I phoned the Sangakkaras and made an appointment to visit them. It was a magical encounter. Their house overlooking the Kandy Lake from the eastern side was an aesthetic goldmine and the tale of its restoration linked three families who, by happenchance, were within my \u2018compass\u2019.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2021\/01\/21\/the-sangakkaras-erudite-charitable-at-home-and-abroad\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[2]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56782 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/4engeltine-cottage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56783 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/kumar-s-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56784 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/SANGA-FAREWELL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">By that stage, I note here, my cricketing affiliations had led me into amiable friendship with Kumar Sangakkara himself both in Adelaide and Colombo.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2021\/01\/21\/the-sangakkaras-erudite-charitable-at-home-and-abroad\/#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\"><strong>[2]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0The SL Cricket team coached by Moody and managed by Michael Tissera had been located in Adelaide for a spell in early 2006 and I was among the Sri Lankans involved in felicitating their stay in town.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2021\/01\/21\/the-sangakkaras-erudite-charitable-at-home-and-abroad\/#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Needless to say, Kumar Sangakkara has sustained the influence of his parental heritage and his educational roots in Trinity College: he reads books; he invests time in charitable projects of all sorts; and speaks in erudite manner \u2013 as witnessed in\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/20130415074817\/http:\/www.lords.org\/laws-and-spirit\/spirit\/mcc-spirit-of-cricket-cowdrey-lecture\/\">the masterly peroration<\/a>\u00a0delivered on the occasion of the Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture in mid-2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56785 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sangakkara-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56786 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sangakkara-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Sanga\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/12\/sangakkaras-visit-st-patricks-college-jaffna\/\">feted at St. Patrick\u2019s College, Jaffna,<\/a>\u00a0when he and Yehali visited in April 2011 and Kumar delivered a peroration<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">That he was chosen as President of the MCC in 2019, \u201cthe first non-British person to the position since the club was founded in 1787,\u201d is a signal honour that befits his background and versatility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">This pictorial venture, therefore, imprints Kumar, Yehali and the Sangakkaras in the blue, blue skies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56787\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/KUMAR-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56788\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/kumar-and-yehali-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56789 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sANGAYEHALI-PLUS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Yahali and \u2018entourage\u2019 at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo \u2013\u00a0<\/strong><em>Pix by Roberts<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56790 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Sanga-sea-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The Sangas relaxing at a hotel in Kalutara\u00a0\u2013<em>-Pix by Roberts<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sangakkaras Erudite &amp; Charitable: At Home and Abroad Source:Thuppahis An Accidental Encounter \u2026.\u00a0 and An Illuminating Outcome When I was in Sri Lanka at some point in the late 1990s on research work, my cricketing links with such individuals as PI Pieris and Michael Tissera encouraged me to take in some of the international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2394,3402],"class_list":{"0":"post-56779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-kumar-sangakkara","9":"tag-michael-tissera","10":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Sangakkaras Erudite &amp; 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