Thursday, August 30, 2012

Congratulations Kumar Sangakkara for being shortlisted for all main awards




ICC AWARDS 2012


Kumar Sangakkara, the wicket-keeper batsman of the Sri Lankan squad is the only person who has been nominated for the main ICC awards 2012 to be announced on 15th September 2012. The nominations are for ICC Cricketer of the Year, ICC Test Cricketer of the Year and ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year.

This is a singular honor for the Country and for Kumar Sangakkara himself who has excelled himself in all departments as the nominations are from elite professionals who are aware either former players, members of the media, representatives of the ICC panel of umpires and match referees.

This means that in the overall context of Cricket, Test cricket and One Day Cricket Sanga has outshone in all departments of the game from behavior to performance. In the history of Cricket no person has received all these nominations in one go, and in one year, as he has already received nominations in the past on different departments in previous years.

There is a severe absence of compliments from anyone instrumental in Sri Lanka Cricket or in Politics for this achievement and this smacks of a lack of respect for his independence and his outspokenness in the interests of the Cricket.

I know that he does not really want respect from those least qualified to give it to him, but I just wish to point out the irony in this respect as we have pontificators for the interests of cricket, but when we have achievers in this game they do not receive the kudos from the ‘pontificators’

It is important that youth have a role model, with values, that can be shown as ones to be emulated by young people. Sri Lanka is badly in need of sufficient number of such role models. We must encourage them and give them a chance to speak to the youth and get them involved in useful activities that will help their leadership qualities and empower them as future leaders of Sri Lanka.

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