By Revatha S. SilvaPathum Nissanka’s father Sunil Silva runs a cricket academy at Kalutara Esplanade. His advice for Nissanka had been to “play fifty dot balls”. “I told my son, puthe (son) always play fifty dot balls. I never allowed him to lose his focus on playing for Sri Lanka,” Silva said. But whatever problems I faced, I never gave up on my target of making my son play for my country.

Source: The Nation March 27, 2021 18:56 UTC