Downing the scalpel to wield the willow View(s):Surgeons from across the country take to the field to play the gentleman’s gameBy Kumudini HettiarachchiStrange bedfellows – a cricket bat and hard ball alongside a scalpel, a needle holder, a pair of needles and sutures! It may seem like two extreme worlds, one waving the scalpel and the other a bat, but they share common characteristics, he said. However, he laughingly added that when first they formed a medical cricket team in Sri Lanka, more than half comprised surgeons but only one or two were physicians. Negotiate without stoppages, was the plea from 79-year-old Mr. Tennekoon considered one of the greatest batsmen in the period before Sri Lanka achieved Test status. From 2000-2003, he also served as Chief Executive of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board.

Source: Sunday Times February 14, 2026 19:48 UTC