Thank You Mr. Bus Driver !

K.R. Pushparanjan Mt. Lavinia Sri Lanka.

It’s with irresistible delight the whole country watched and read the heroic act of the bus driver who was conveying our cricketing ambassadors to the Lahore stadium on that fatal day March 03, 2009. If not for the timely and levelheaded action taken by Mr. Mehar Mohammad Khalil who was driving our cricketing heroes to the ground on this fateful day, not only to the cricketing fans but to the whole country it would have been a true melancholy and a desolation. In fact had he not had the bold and conscientious mind to get the bus moving after the initial attack our loving heroes would have been a far easy target for the fanatics.

This diminutive man seems to have driven the bus at full speed carrying the cricket team, without leaving it and running away which would have been the safest thing for him to do in terms of his personal safety.

Sri Lankans must pay a special tribute to this simple but extraordinary man for his remarkable bravery in the face of direct gunfire from highly sophisticated weapons of ruthless, brutal barbarians.

I feel that our Cricket Board must get Mr. Mehar Mohammad Khalil down to Sri Lanka and bestow a special accolade in recognizing his brave action that saved our adoring champions.