Cricket’s loss, javelin’s gain: Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga, the new kid on the block
Throwing might have been in his blood, but like most Sri Lankan teenagers, Rumesh Pathirage first fell in love with cricket. At under-18 level, he was already hurling the ball at 134 kilometres per hour, a lithe figure with raw pace and a competitive edge. In his only competitive outing for St Peter’s College, Colombo,…