Leading Edge: SA cricket could learn a few things by crossing Custom Street

Sunday Times

TELFORD VICE, Galle

We were in the midst of the madness of crossing Custom Street when a man with a plan made us an offer he thought we could not refuse: “In through the main gate. Only 100.”

Around us swarmed buses, mini-buses, motorbikes, scooters, trucks, tuk-tuks, taxis, bicycles, parasoled, perambulating pedestrians, beggars, policemen as punctilious as they were paunchy, dogged dogs, catatonic cats, crotchety crows, and all. They came from at least 47 points of a three-pronged...