Give that man a swimming pool. Pimp the team bus. Rejig the semi-final calculations. At the end of a week in which Sri Lanka’s players have been reduced to whingeing about the backstage arrangements, and on a day when England’s opening bowlers confirmed their own status as the leanest, most compelling cutting edge at this World Cup, there was something thrilling about the sight of Sri Lanka’s own 35-year-old white-ball marvel taking his team to victory in Leeds.
As the sun dipped over the edge of the Emerald stand at close of play, Lasith Malinga could be seen at the boundary edge being politely mobbed by a crowd of supporters. For half an hour he posed for selfies, hand clasps and back-slaps, sucking the sweetness from the moment in a way that has, as ever in the tangled depths of Sri Lankan cricket, its own wider significance.
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