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APPRECIATION
Thank you Tryphon
They say the good die young. But, why is it? Because it is they who must survive to spread and inculcate the better side of the human to all people so that we could make this a better place to live. Well…One could describe the demise of Tryphon Mirando as an irreparable loss to cricket, where he worked, but most of all it is a loss for the better beings in life.

In life he was a good friend. He was a person who was ever willing to listen, to understand and at the same time to find a plausible solution to whatever the solution may be.

I got to know Tryphon while he was with the Cricket Board in his first stint with the ex-co under the presidency of Ana Punchihewa. In the short period of about a year we worked together I learned as to what good qualities that he possessed and how he made the maximum use of them to make others feel better. Then another the episode that one can not forget was when spinner Muttiah Muralitharan was called by the umpires in Australia and how Tryphon along with his cricket board president and another few men who mattered left no stone unturned until the bowler was back on the field bamboozling the batsmen allover the world once again. However once the job was done Tryphone was happy on a job well done and never used it to gain credit for himself. That was the quality of the man.

Then on his second coming to the pedestal in cricket, as the secretary of the Interim Committee of the SLC, he once again proved what a forthright person he still remained to be. As the spokesman of the IC Tryphon never thought of dodging a question from a media man however intricate the question was. He had an inborn talent of his own style of PR and built-up one the best rapports with them in the cricket hierarchy in recent times.

Besides the SLC, Mirando was also a very active member of the Tamil Union and learned his ABC’s from stalwarts like S. Skandakumar and the other stalwarts. Apart from cricket, he was an active member of the Sri Lanka Tennis Association and also was in the midst of the wellbeing of that interest of his too.

How do his friends feel about the loss? I quipped from his colleague, friend and co-SLC member Adel Hashim about his inner feeling. He paused for less than a second and said “I can describe that man in one word. That is, he was a “gentleman”. Then he added “I was directly reporting to Tryphon during my stint at Janashakthi, and within that period I can not recollect a single day that he had to cross words with his team. He exactly knew how to move with a security guard or a CEO of a company and make the person standing next to him completely at ease.”

“Then to the Schaffters he was like an extended arm of the family. When I walked into their home on hearing the news they were devastated and some were sobbing. That is the kind of bondage that he had built-up. Even when he decided to make a change of work places from there it was to Janashakthi I learn that some of his friends asked him it was the correct decision that he was taking. But, he took the challenge grew with the organization and see upto what extent the company has grown to. Even while serving for the SLC he was a great strength to us as our spokesman”.

All in all Sri Lanka’s sporting fraternity, the corporate world, his friends and family have lost a good friend. On his part for what he has done up to his demise we only can say …. Thank you Tryphon. - Pathi

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