The St Patrick’s College ground in Jaffna has the only turf wicket in the entire northern province. (Express Photo by Sandip G) The St Patrick’s College ground in Jaffna has the only turf wicket in the entire northern province. It was readied by the Sri Lanka Cricket Board, three years ago, to facilitate the growth of cricket in the once strife-torn Jaffna peninsula. It’s not just infrastructural incompetence or decades of geographical alienation that has stymied Jaffna cricket – he insists that in the pre-war days, Jaffna was a cricketing powerhouse – but also societal and class disparities. There were a few times the college ground was shelled by the Sri Lankan Army in the 80s.

Source: Indian Express August 17, 2017 20:15 UTC