Murali and Sanga
Murali and Sanga
Forging Identity and Pride through Cricket in a Small Island Nation
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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