“Cricket is neither a Religion nor a Sport. It is a halfway house between the two for most cricket fans in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the rest of South Asia”
Posted on July 20th, 2026
Senaka Weeraratna
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This perceptive observation perfectly captures the quasi-religious passion and socio-cultural gravity that the sport holds across the Indian subcontinent. [1, 2]
Interestingly, Senaka Weeraratna—the Sri Lankan lawyer who authored this famous quote—is also widely recognized in cricketing circles for his pivotal off-field contributions. In the early 1980s, long before the advent of modern technology in sports, he was a pioneering visionary who proposed the concept of a player-referral mechanism and the utilization of independent television cameras to assist on-field umpires.
You can read more about his advocacy and the philosophical foundations of his proposals on LankaWeb, or explore further commentary on his broader ideas via the LankaWeb archives.
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