{"id":66358,"date":"2017-05-22T16:56:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T23:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66358"},"modified":"2017-05-22T17:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T00:01:27","slug":"mr-sangakkara-youre-good-but-what-about-your-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/05\/22\/mr-sangakkara-youre-good-but-what-about-your-country\/","title":{"rendered":"MR Sangakkara You’re Good but what about your country?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top Spin by Suni<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

For all the acolades you’ve received re- the Cowdrey Lecture etc etc., your glorious accomplishments as a national cricketer and world recognition of your class as a cricketer you seem to have forgotten that by continuing to play in overseas teams and perform brilliantly, there are\u00a0 those who wonder why you seem to have forgotten your country which you chose to bypass at a time when it could have benefitted greatly had you continued to represent it a tad longer. Is this a kind of patriotism that leans towards” purse triotism” where moneymaking seems to be your motivation.It seems to show you up in poor light ? It is not that you are being slighted for your choices but in the greater scheme of things you seem to have failed your country in an hour of need where you could have carried it to greater glory. Others like Dishan, Mahela who bowed out of the game did so when they realized their time was up although Mahela still basks in the glory of the IPL and Big Bash leagues not that he owes anything to India and the“ pursefulness “ seems to also be the incentive but perhaps not to the degree of your illustrious colleague Sanga but it is mind boggling.In the end does it all boiled down to Money Money ans if so what a shame!!!<\/p>\n

Thank Heavens for the true patriotism shown by the likes of Malinga, Murali and others who have indicated their love of Motherland through their words and actions and all the cricketers of yore who have wielded the banner of loyalty to a greater part despite their involvements with the IPL\u00a0 and other sources where surely, the commitment to serve and improve the quality of the National Game could have been prioritized rather than turning their backs on it in a manner of speaking .<\/p>\n

Breathes there a man who never to himself has said `this is my land ! My Own Native Land!“<\/em><\/p>\n

And of what use are all the glory and accolades one recieve in his name if incorporates mere jargon towards accepting them and in the greater scheme of things forgets the single most detail of priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top Spin by Suni For all the acolades you’ve received re- the Cowdrey Lecture etc etc., your glorious accomplishments as a national cricketer and world recognition of your class as a cricketer you seem to have forgotten that by continuing to play in overseas teams and perform brilliantly, there are\u00a0 those who wonder why you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunil-kumar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}