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When I took over the board, we had a bank balance of Rs. 300,000. When I signed the contract with Dav, my committee was asking Ana, what are you doing? Where is the money? How are you going to get the money?
I said, don’t worry, you have to be positive and I told them I will get the money. Then I told Dr. Quintus (de Zylva), our representative inAustraliathat I needed 100,000 dollars. After sometime, he called me back and said, sorry Ana, no luck. I was wondering what to do and just one week before Dav came he called me again and said Ana, I have got the money. I asked him how did you get it.
He said the Australian Cricket Board gave it. I was stunned. I said, what, Australian Cricket Board?,” Punchihewa recalls.
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The guarantee money for our tour later that year to Australia was 100,000 dollars. But the Australian Board agreed to make it 200,000 dollars when we desperately needed it. They said, don’t tell anyone, but use this money on Dav.