Senaka Weeraratna

EMAIL Inventor Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai

This is the same story with respect to the Decision Review System (DRS) which is the invention of a Sri Lankan Lawyer ( under the concept of ‘Player Referral’ conceived and published for the first time in the ‘Australian’ Newspaper dated March 25, 1997, calling for a Right of Appeal for Dissatisfied players to the Third Umpire against the decision of the on-field or Ground Umpire). 

Wikipedia and Google among other reputed International institutions recognize this invention of Senaka Weeraratna. But unfortunately not in his own country of birth. A Prophet is never honoured at home is a truism that is clearly demonstrated in the total unwillingness of the Cricket Establishment in Sri Lanka to give due recognition to one of its own sons. 

ICC behaves like the British Raj. Despite not being able to disclose a single name as the source of the highly 

innovative concept i.e., DRS, and not being prepared to recognize the only claimant in the whole world who has strong supporting evidence to establish his claim as the inventor of the DRS, ICC carries on regardless

on the presumption that whatever decision the ICC decision-makers take on the origins of the DRS, will never be challenged by the rest of the members of the ICC who are drawn mostly from former British colonies. 

This presumptuous behaviour is a form of contempt toward those who from the time of birth in British colonies have an inferiority complex.    

The minds of the representatives of former colonies i.e., in the Indian sub-continent, Africa, and Caribbean Islands, sitting at the High Table of the Lords and MCC are so colonized and deformed that they cannot still comprehend that a Non – White man ( Sri Lankan ) can beat a White Man in turning the game of Cricket on its head. DRS has done exactly that.

The world must applaud people like the EMAIL Inventor Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai for speaking out against racism 

in the world of acknowledgment of invention.

Credit must be given where it is due. That is what is called fair play. A synonym for cricket.

What the ICC is doing today is that both the ICC and its affiliates are using the intellectual property i.e., DRS, of someone else without the consent of the true owner and making huge sums of profit at the expense of the true inventor and laughing all the way to the Bank. Not a cent is flowing back to the pocket of the inventor. 

This is Colonialism in its ugliest form congealed in one of the proudest achievements of the English Race – the game of Cricket. 

The Cricket World must produce not only great players but also outspoken men like the email inventor 

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai.

The Struggle for Justice continues.

Senaka Weeraratna