3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I know Mahela is a good gentleman and down-to-earth. I realised this when he was at Sri Lanka Embassy in Canberra on Independence Day celebration. Until that time I thought Sangakkara is the best. But I found Sanga is a big headed and a proud character. Whereas, Mahela is innocent and has a very genuine smile. But I do not like to see articles that trying to show how Mahela behaved when searched by a policeman or the army. I heard Sanga was telling the same in his MCC speech. What Mahela could have done was, tell that he is the cricket captain. That way that policeman’s could have saved his precious time to search a real terrorist and could have avoided a disaster for the country rather than spending time to search a very trusted person in Sri Lanka. This is a lesson for everybody not to show their down-to-earth characters through such silly things. They should look beyond that.

Ranjith Subasinghe

October 6, 2012 at 6:38 PM

Samurdhi said...

good article..

October 7, 2012 at 1:39 AM

Anonymous said...

This is an explanation to first Ano, who think Mahela should have told who he was when searching..

While war was in Sri Lanka it was the lawful practice insisted to be performed. Other thing is its hard to define who are the trusted person..then argument would come ..why only sportsmen..some leading people in differnt fields would be thinking the same.. For example Media people and artists!

So what Mahel did was correct and lawful.Do you know people in national security did the same in most cases at that time..

October 7, 2012 at 4:02 PM