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Vijaya Malalasekera By Sujith Silva   My first Royal-Thomian memory goes back to 1953 when Royal College was captained by Ubhaya de Silva; the Thomians were down I think 4 for 14 and then P.I. Peiris and Geoff Wijesinghe put on record partnership of 187 runs. The Thomians went on …

Would you be surprised to hear of a Sri Lankan who taught a thing or two to the MCC and the ICC? Well don’t be, we have a cricket enthusiast, historian, recorder, player and a prolific writer (on cricket of course), a veritable encyclopedia on cricket, in Mahinda Wijesinghe who …