{"id":115212,"date":"2013-11-18T15:50:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=115212"},"modified":"2013-11-29T08:30:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T03:00:34","slug":"rules-of-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rules-of-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules Of Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahesan+Niranjan&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahesan Niranjan<\/span><\/a> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63313\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MahesanNiranjan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63313\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-63313\" alt=\"Prof Mahesan Niranjan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MahesanNiranjan-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MahesanNiranjan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MahesanNiranjan-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof Mahesan Niranjan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The rules of the game<\/p>\n<p>have been refined and updated;<\/p>\n<p>even unknown to our star<\/p>\n<p>cricketer of Mother Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Forgiveness<\/i>, the rules define<\/p>\n<p>is begged from the wronged<\/p>\n<p>when full of remorse<\/p>\n<p>and felt from the heart.<\/p>\n<p>When expressed unreserved,<\/p>\n<p>loud and clear by offender,<\/p>\n<p>claiming his guilt<\/p>\n<p>and wanting to move on,<\/p>\n<p>we shall refrain from<\/p>\n<p>calling it a chucker.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But think of a man,<\/p>\n<p>surrounded by guns,<\/p>\n<p>evicted from home,<\/p>\n<p>ridden in colourless van,<\/p>\n<p>and hung against gravity.<\/p>\n<p>His bones broken<\/p>\n<p>by boots and batons,<\/p>\n<p>and rifle butts of the bully,<\/p>\n<p>spiced up for pleasure,<\/p>\n<p>with curry powder on willy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Demand of this man,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForgive, or be gone;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The umpire shall call:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a no ball!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":63313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,6968],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editorial","category-popular-columns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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