There was a news item on the TV a couple of nights ago. A new Australian government representative (ambassador, consul?) was appointed to Sri Lanka. He was overseeing the distribution of a shipment of cricket bats to the locals there and was filmed taking a couple of balls and whacking them.

Now I know that the people of Sri Lanka are cricket mad, just like those in India and Pakistan, but given the recent troubles there and the lack of food and water as a result of the civil war, I wondered if someone was trying to rewrite an old adage: Perhaps it should now read “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give a man a fishing rod and feed him all his life. Give a man a cricket bat and then he can whack his neighbour over the head and take the other guy's fish…”

Just seemed to me that there are more pressing issues in Sri Lanka than cricket, but then the only cricket I used to go and watch were the village matches at Hatfield House in the UK when my parents used to live near there…

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