When Sri Lanka bowler Sachithra Senanayake ran out England's Jos Buttler by 'Mankading' him in Tuesday's decisive one-day international at Edgbaston, it was another example of a 'Spirit of the Game'  issue which is terribly hard to define.

Weeks have passed since Sri Lanka became World Champions for the second time in the history, when our cricketing heroes led by Lasith Malinga brought home the ICC World T20 trophy from Bangladesh.  The winning echoes from the night of April 6th are still reverberating in the minds of the people from this tiny island. Cricket that unified this strife-filled nation 18 years ago embraced the World Cup under the leadership of Arjuna Ranatunga.