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More than Cricket and Football: International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity

Joel Nathan Rosen and Maureen M. Smith

Print publication date: 2016

Print ISBN-13: 9781496809889

Published to University Press of Mississippi: January 2019

DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496809889.001.0001

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Murali and Sanga

Murali and Sanga

Forging Identity and Pride through Cricket in a Small Island Nation

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(p.186) Murali and Sanga
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More than Cricket and Football
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Gamage Harsha Perera

Tim B. Swartz

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University Press of Mississippi
DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781496809889.003.0010

This chapter examines two cricket stars from the small island nation of Sri Lanka: bowler Muttiah Muralitharan, aka Murali, who led his team to a World Cup title in 1993, and batsman Kumar Sangakkara (aka Sanga). National icons of rivalrous ethnic cultures, the Tamil and the Sinhalese, during a bloody period of civil war, they came to embody cricket-mad Sri Lanka.

Keywords:   Cricket, Sri Lanka, Ethnic strife, School sport, Nationalism

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