Trevor Chesterfield
Jun 24 2009, Sreelata Yellamrazu

by Trevor Chesterfield

There is a promotional advert in a Colombo newspaper drawing attention to the Sri Lanka team at the ICC World T20 that has become so typical of your triumphalism mentality in today’s society.

Frankly, it is a type of...

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