Dodgertown? How about Cricket-town?

That's what several local doctors say, although they make it clear they are joking.

As a young boy growing up in Sri Landa, Dr. Asoka Wijetilleke recalls that he had only one passion. "It was  cricket for breakfast, lunch and dinner," he says.

There wasn't anything unusual about this because the island, then called Ceylon, had been a british colony for more than a century, and as everybody knows, the English are crazy about cricket.

Read the entire article in the September 1999 issue