![]() He wants to draw our eye to both the beauty and the ugliness within the sport). ![]() His stock ball, though, was "the Chinaman" (Shehan Karunatilaka's use of this term, now dropped from cricketing vocabulary for its racist overtones, is not in any way unwitting. ![]() With his best friend Ari, Wije sets out to discover what happened to Mathew, a bowler of such unique skills that he could bowl any kind of delivery with either left or right hand. ![]() There are also many other things to focus on: friendships between old men, discord between a father and son, love between a man and his wife, ethnic conflagrations in Sri Lanka, the back-scratching and back-stabbing of the powerful, the ruination of a sport through its involvement with bookies, men with self-destruct buttons, conspiracies, the dead coming to life and the living coming to death, fame, ignominy, comedy and tragedy. ![]()
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