There is a local tale about a monkey who tried to meddle with a piece of stick that a wood cutter had stuck to keep a split tree trunk apart and busted one of his own monkey parts.

Nineteen year-old Lankan SAF games gold medalist Sherina Clerance, certainly was not born with a silver spoon. In fact she finds the going very tough. Unlike the other damsels of her age in the city where they spend most of the evenings in very choosy hot spots....

As I write, it is still only the fourth day of the third test in Galle and the outcome of the game is yet uncertain mostly because of the weather but there are more reasons than one for us to be happy about our performance here.