artme
27th December 2012, 03:10 PM
Been watching a bit of the cricket.
Isn't it great to see the sportsmanship exhibited by these two teams?!:):):)
Handshakes for MJ Clarke from several Sri Lankans after he reached his ton, lots of chat and smiles on other occasions.
Love that Sri Lankan support mob too!! very colourful and enthusiastic, and there seems to be a lot of happy banter
with the Ausie supporters.
Just great to see!!
jimbur
27th December 2012, 03:36 PM
That's how life should be Art. Can't beat real civilisation.
Scott
27th December 2012, 09:12 PM
I went on day one and had a thoroughly good time, plenty of action. And yes, the sportsmanship didn't go unnoticed. A few yobs around but they were relatively harmless.
rwbuild
28th December 2012, 12:54 AM
Been watching a bit of the cricket.
Isn't it great to see the sportsmanship exhibited by these two teams?!:):):)
Handshakes for MJ Clarke from several Sri Lankans after he reached his ton, lots of chat and smiles on other occasions.
Love that Sri Lankan support mob too!! very colourful and enthusiastic, and there seems to be a lot of happy banter
with the Ausie supporters.
Just great to see!!
Having spent at least 2 months of every year for the last 7 years doing volunteer work in Sri Lanka, and taking teams too to do work. We take them on sight seeing trips on weekends as well. One of them was to Sigeria and on the way back our driver asked if we would like to see the Dumbula International cricket ground (the poms had played there the day before).
We said ok until we stopped at the gates and saw the guards with AK47's and very mean looks.
Our driver said no worries, I'll get you in. Well after he talked to them and pointed excitedly at our bus, we were escorted with our own guard in to see the grounds,
After duly doing the tourist thing with cameras, funny poses, etc, we left, thanked our guard and went on our way.
Curiosity was killing me as I asked our driver how he got us in. Turns out we were the parents of the Australian cricket team coming to check out the venue:rolleyes:........they are absolutely cricket mad in Sri Lanka:D