Tour Diaries: Meeting Mahinda Pethiyagoda
When I bumped into Mahinda Pethiyagoda, a lean 56-year-old with an accountant’s air about him, the first thing he spoke about on learning I am Indian was an obscure three-day match in 1974. “Gavaskar… Wadekar, I bowled against them when they toured Sri Lanka,” he recalled with obvious pride. That was the only official first-class match Pethiyagoda played. In these days of the IPL and billion-dollar television deals, cricketers can make a pretty pile through the game. It wasn’t always so, especially in Sri Lanka where even as late as…
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Tour Diaries: Meeting Mahinda Pethiyagoda
