Good start with a HORRIBLE ending.

"A Martian picks...Sri Lanka!" - was published by Mukul Kesavan in CricInfoBlogs. Mukul is an Indian who thinks Sri Lanka to win the world cup 2007. He awaits a final between Sri Lanka & Australia. Through out the article he presents his facts & findings very nicely - but at the end he tarnishes the value of the entire article just by one sentence.

"So speaking strictly as an alien, I want to see an Australia-Sri Lanka final. And should the Sri Lankans win, it'll be nice if they don't take the trophy off to be blessed by the Buddhist clergy like they did the last time they were champions. Murali, Farveez, Atapattu, Malinga and the rest of the team do their best for Sri Lanka, not for some majoritarian Sinhala Buddhist state."

Sri Lanka cricket team is a clear example to the entire world - which reflects the value and the respect we give to inter-racial & inter-religious relationships. At the time the world cup was won by us in 1996 - it was not only being blessed by the Buddhist clergy - but also by the rest of the religions.

I doubt the intension of Mukul Kesavan - by publishing this article. Is he trying to pass a message to our cricket team - specially targeting the non-Buddhists - and destroy their unity in the team? I don't think he can do it... These Sri Lankans are very much intelligent than he thinks...