Too many cooks and what a soup

Perhaps Sri Lanka Cricket should start bidding for Treasury bonds seeing how deftly it changed the man into a blithering con artist-that is if the media is to be believed.

International Stadium on Thursday.

Pothas this time said everything was fine with the team set- up and the processes put in place would pull Sri Lanka out of the rut. He even blamed the media for putting a “spin” of his previous statement and that he had no issues with the Sri Lankan cricket board.

His comments were in contrast to that on Sunday when he said the players suf fered because there were too many people meddling in selection and decision- making. Stalwarts of the 1996 World Cup triumph, Sanath Jayasuriya ( chief selector) and Asanka Gurusinha ( cricket manager), play influential roles.

“We will start off with a statement from the coach, and then a statement from the captain before we go into the Q and A,” announced Vrai Raymond, SLC’s media head. “We would like to limit it to tomorrow’s match and nothing else.”

“And just to clarify things because you guys love a little spin on a good story, I’m very, very happy with the situation with the Board, which has been hugely supportive of everything that I do and the players do. Certainly I have no issues there.”

Ha! Who says Sri Lanka Cricket cannot do wonders for the game? It took one-time wicket keeper Pothas and overnight turned him into a spinner. Now if that is not great work what is?

Perhaps Sri Lanka Cricket should start bidding for Treasury bonds seeing how deftly it changed the man into a blithering con artist- that is if the media is to be believed.

One was not quite sure whether Pothas said too many cooks or too many crooks. If it was the latter he must surely have been referring to some of our politicians whose heavy scoring in the tender games far exceed the collective effort of the Indians since the start of this tour.

And in case too many questions are asked SLC’s media manager, some chap called Vrai Raymond seems to have put a lid on freedom of speech. At a prematch press conference Vrai Raymond had limited media questions to four and only questions on the match to be played.

I mean even a question on the state of the weather would have been tabooed like the UNP trying to cover- up the bond scandal. Perhaps a change of name from Vrai to Wry Raymond might seem appropriate.

C’est vrai, Raymond?