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A Derisive Comment on Sri Lanka’s T20 Word Cup Performances Source:Thuppahis Punchi Putha in the Sunday Times [of Sri Lanka], 16 June 2024 … an item with this title “Chased away” My dear Wanindu and team, I thought of writing to you at a time when you have been knocked out of the T20 World Cup with such certainty when there is still a game to be played. Once again questions are being asked about what is wrong with our cricket. Whose fault is it – you, as players, or is it all the fault of the administrators? We heard some cruel jokes about you. Some said there would have been more merit in spending the money spent on you to take a group of elderly people on a pilgrimage to ‘Dambadiva’. Others said we should have got you down early saying your homes were flooded to avoid those embarrassing ...