![]() ![]() He wants to draw our eye to both the beauty and the ugliness within the sport). His stock ball, though, was "the Chinaman" (Shehan Karunatilaka's use of this term, now dropped from cricketing vocabulary for its racist overtones, is not in any way unwitting. ![]() With his best friend Ari, Wije sets out to discover what happened to Mathew, a bowler of such unique skills that he could bowl any kind of delivery with either left or right hand. There are also many other things to focus on: friendships between old men, discord between a father and son, love between a man and his wife, ethnic conflagrations in Sri Lanka, the back-scratching and back-stabbing of the powerful, the ruination of a sport through its involvement with bookies, men with self-destruct buttons, conspiracies, the dead coming to life and the living coming to death, fame, ignominy, comedy and tragedy. ![]()
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