NEW YORK — Sri Lanka, which established diplomatic relations with the Caribbean island nation of Dominica (population about 71,000) back in May 2018, inaugurated a friendly cricket match in New York last week.
The two teams, comprising of expatriates, met at a friendly cricket encounter at the Canarsie Park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The Sri Lankans won the match – 192 to 118 – before a large gathering of New York cricket lovers.
The proposal for the match – which is likely to be an annual event – came from Ambassador Loreen Bannis-Roberts , the Permanent Representative of Dominica to U.N and was informally conveyed to Ambassador Dr. Rohan Perera, the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN.
Dr.Wije Kottahachchi working with the Lasitha Abeysekera organised the Sri Lankan cricket team, which he described as “a very talented group of cricketers who have played for their respective schools in Sri Lanka”. They played against a team from the Dominica cricket club of Brooklyn New York.
The Sri Lanka team was led by Omar Mikthath, an old Zahirian, while the team from Dominica was captained by George Royer.
The Sri Lankan team also included Primon Perera, Prabath Gamage, Kasun Gunasinghe, Shanaka Lokubalasuriya, Ruchira Jayasuriya, Omer Mihlar, Yohan Dissanayaka, Yasith Perera, Saminda Siriwardana, Niomal Karunaratna, Kavinda Silva, Udaya Bambarandage and Chathura Anandagoda. The team manager was Lasitha Gunasinghe.
During her remarks at the trophy presentation, Ambassador Bannis-Roberts described Dominica, the location for the 2006 Hollywood movie ”Pirates of the Caribbean”, as a “cricket crazy country.”
“So is Sri Lanka”, said Dr Kottahachchi, amidst loud cheers.
Present at the ceremony were Ambassador Perera and his wife Therese Perera.
“NEW YORK — Sri Lanka, which established diplomatic relations with the Caribbean island nation of Dominica (population about 71,000) back in May 2018, inaugurated a friendly cricket match in New York last week. ”
Let me make this abundantly clear, Sri Lanka establishing diplomatic relations with Dominica has nothing to do with people from Dominica and Sri Lanka engaging into a game of cricket!
There are people all over the United States playing cricket in the Summer time. Example, if one go to Woodley Park in the San Fernando valley North of Los Angeles, on a Saturday, and Sunday you will find teams calling themselves West Indies, playing Belize, or India play Pakistan, England playing Australia.
Now; none of the generic names mentioned has anything to do with the Nations mentioned national official team, we find the same in Canada too! Once I even attended a game and saw former West Indies player Lans Gibbs played on a West Indies generic team, they lost to Belize!
F E D T, You full of bolany. You are a show off clown who likes noticing. What has Dominica do to you? Why all that hate? Even a simple thing like what you nagatively commented on upsets you? What’s really wrong with you HATERS?!
To: Mr Telemaque
Hello and good afternoon my people. Well Mr Telemaque you just can’t give our people credit for anything. I was at the game and the picnic was a very nice event. The food was different and excellent . Thanks Ms Joseph.
Tony, you have totally missed understood what I conveyed:
So, let’s see if I can make it simpler; when an intelligent person read the caption, it appears someone is creating, or has given the impression that the game played between the participants is as a result of Sri Lanka establishing diplomatic relationship with Dominica.
I doubt that is the case unless you can verify it to be so. As I people getting together and naming their team after their place of origin has nothing to do with any official national team as I explain it in my earlier submission to which you have responded.
I assure you Tony if that game had anything to do with diplomacy, and diplomatic relationship, I am sure there would be some joint team photographs, along with some dignitary from Sri Lanka in the picture. I am more than a hundred percent sure there are more than one person in the Sri Lankan Embassy of which one of them would be present.
The team from Dominica was captained by George Royer. But where are the names of the others who played on the D/ca team??
Royer was not the only person that played on the team. I was involved in the game and the entire team was presented with a much better picture of the entire team. As you can see Royer is not the picture. I guess the mentioned his name because was the captain. You had guys like Royston Trocard, Graveney, Roy John, George Seaman, Tony George, Winslow John, Argo and so on.
To the Dominica cricket team in New York: surely you could have posted a better photo than that.
In that picture you look like a ragtag bunch of people – not a team.
Zandolie you know anything pertaining to Dominica must disgrace the country. Look at that man to your extreme left with that pile of nasty bunch of garbage he has on his head. What that tell you, unless he is crazy, that is a Dominica low life in America.
Who will employ somebody like that?
So you find they are the ones if they are legal in the country they simply become a burden to welfare system, and it is people like them which caused Donald Trump to describe Black people country as “s…-hole country.” And whereas in this article they claimed that there are 71, 000 people in Dominica, they need to know that is a lie if they were to count everybody residing in the country right now it would total less than thirty thousand people!
The truth serves no purpose in our country, If they want to prove there are less than the amount claimed, all they need to do is check the amount of vote cast last election