Paws off cricket please

Watching a media opportunity ahead of the five-ODI series between Sri Lanka and India, SR Pathiravithana noticed something he had never before seen in all his years covering cricket in his home country. Sitting with Sri Lanka's captain, coach and board chief executive were the sports minister and his secretary. A politician leading an international cricket exchange in Sri Lanka?

It doesn't gel with Pathiravithana, who in the Sri Lankan daily, the Sunday Times, says that it all looked a bit out of place.