Article No 8017
Posted on July 30, 2010 by Kalani
C.I. Gunasekera
Local cricketing legend and one of the country’s well-known sporting personalities C.I. Gunasekera passed away yesterday. It was only two weeks ago that he celebrated his 92nd birthday. Conroy Ivers Gunasekera better known as C.I. Gunasekera is still a household name in Sri Lanka for his celebrated cricketing exploits in a now by-gone era when foreign teams arrived in Ceylon, as we were then known, only on those so-called whistle stop tours.
But these rare visits was sufficient for CI to display his full repertoire of cricketing genius which even astounded the likes of Sir Don Bradman and Keith Miller. His deeds on the cricketing fields is the stuff of which folklore is made of. He was also a top class tennis player and in later years was a collector of vintage cars and was a prominent presence at those Old Crocks’ rallies.
A raconteur par excellence, he is among the last of the cricketing giants that bestrode the green turf in those spacious days when the game was played for the sheer love of it.
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