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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LazyLizard" data-source="post: 21833455" data-attributes="member: 546449">පට්ට යකෝ අරවින්ද ෆීල්ඩ් කරන ගමන් මාළු පාන් කනවලු <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" />Partly in admiration, partly in jest, Kumar Sangakkara recounts how on many first-class match days, de Silva would arrive just as play was starting, instructing club staff to fetch him breakfast as he wandered out. A few overs in, two maalu paan [fish buns] would be delivered to him at slip. He would stash one in his pocket and chomp on the other. When the bowler ran in, he would crouch and cup his hand, half-eaten maalu paan lodged in his fingers. "But sure as anything," Sangakkara says, "by the end of the day, Aravinda would be 70 not out or 80 not out." All through de Silva's later career, team-mates and coaches sought to simply stay out of his way; to let him occupy his own world, where he was happy and productive.</blockquote>

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