Cricket wins against all odds

The third part of the 'Chitchat' series explored how cricket won against all odds during Sri Lankan Nidahas Trophy 2018, which they arranged to commemorate their 70th independence day inviting Bangladesh and India to receive hospitality.

Emergency
Sudden declaration of urgent situation in the Kandy due to religious clash on March 5 obscured the fate of the Triangular cricket series. The Kandy turmoil began with a Buddhist man killing, which provoked to set fire on a Muslim business shop.  The City of Kandy is located approximately 130km away from the capital Colombo, which was the home venue for Nidahas Trophy this year.
But all hearsays proven wrong when match referee Chris Broad handed over the coin to Dinesh  Chandimal, who came in middle of 22 yards with Rohit Sharma to toss on March 6.

Rough weather
The Lankan weather was as mysterious and instable as their socio-political condition during the Nidahas Trophy. The authority prepared the fixture of the triangular without keeping any reserve days for rainy seasons' cricket. Two of the seven matches were delayed due to foul weather. But cricket won against natural uncertainty of Sri Lanka as well.

Lankans Supporters' Tragedy
Rode on Mahmudulla's smashing innings, Bangladesh defeated Sri Lanka on March 16 in the virtual semi-final to qualify for the final against India. The match already got infamy for various stigmatic incidents. The last and the worst stigma was the attack on 'Tiger Shoaib', who is now the gallery ambassador of Tigers cricket.
Frustrated Lankan supporters attacked on Bangladesh fan Shoaib Ali, who alleged to media against home teams supporters for their violent behaviour.

Support to India
'The enemy of enemy is a friend'- is a famous diplomatic theory of Mouriyan scholar Kautilya. Sri Lankan poured that old wine in the new bottle of Nidahas final, who turned into Indians for that specific day of final. The approximate number of 20,000 Lankan fans cheered Indian by singing and dancing.  

Provoking News
Many Sri Lankan media started to write provoking news after the failure of their team against Bangladesh. Rex Clementine, a prominent Sri Lankan journalist wrote a column after the Tigers second consecutive victory against Sri Lanka, where he wrote "Indian cricket supremo Jagmohan Dalmiya, the business tycoon from Kolkata, has done so much for the sport. He also had one or two faults. One of them was granting Bangladesh Test status. Mr. Dalmiya should be handed 1000 demerit points posthumously for awarding Bangladesh Test status."
He also wrote a provoking article in The Island on 20 March 2017 titled "RIP Sri Lankan Cricket" after the defeat of Sri Lanka in the P. Sara Oval Test against Bangladesh on 19th March,2017.