While The Cricket’s On, Take The Bank
The HNB cash machine. I think I got my money out in time.
The government can do whatever it wants during cricket matches and no one will notice. For example, they recently took over HNB Bank and appointed someone from the Central Bank as the director. The Central Bank regulates this bank, which it now has a financial interest in. Which is a bit off. They also had information no one else has going into the deal, which is a bit like insider trading. Oh, and they did it with pension and public funds, which is my money. But nobody noticed. Because the cricket was on.
That said, the cricket is going fucking great. I have never seen a perfect game like Dilshan and Upul Tharanga played, which is all the more interesting because I think one stole the other’s wife a while back. It was honestly sad how they were toying with the English at the end, but the team is looking really good going into the New Zealand match tomorrow.
What was I talking about?
indi , the government has always controlled HNB. and that news article is one whole year old
Oh now i remember this scene.
Why are you posting about news articles from 2010?
Plus, IMO HNB should be destroyed completely. A pile of shit.
Isnt it funny how Indi tries to bullshit 1 year old news and hope mentioning cricket will stop ppl from noticing
It must have been jetlag. He was browsing news items of March 2010 instead of 2011. Some of those shares, came from Galleon, so maybe the government stepped in to shield the bank when the Galleon fund got in to trouble in the states.
When today’s match gets going, no one’s going to notice or even particularly care, if their wife was spirited away, I think.
sorry, wrong link
http://print.dailymirror.lk/business/127-local/38736.html
Those are non executive appointments. In any case, the whole story about the government taking over HNB during cricket matches is all wrong.
Wasn’t this the same Willie Gamage who was one of the signatories of the Helping Hambantota account?
Isn’t there some CB regulation that prevents any one party from owning more than 20% of the sahres of a quoted commercial bank?
Shammi. it’s 10%, not 20. Basically you can hold as many shares as you want but your effective voting power will only amount to 10% unless you are one of the people who started the bank or a direct relation there of. I don’t know what the fuss here is anyway. these are non executive appointments they don’t have voting power at board meetings. I highly doubt the government has any interest in running private banks here, what alot of people don’t know is that for years the government as directly or indirectly held massive takes in a number of banks. So epf or whatever buying bank shares now isn’t changing the picture.
Oh, okay. I think the fuss is about insider dealing or something. The government would have an edge over other players in the market, when making decisions about aquiring or divesting themselves of shares due to the information they were privy to, regardless of whether they took part in the decision making process. But I’m not complaining, if it means better returns on my EPF..
Indi…it should read,
“The government can do whatever it wants during cricket matches, after cricket matches and the whole bloody year around and only a few will notice because the vast majority are idiots who have had their heads up their asses for the past 63 years!”
Perfect games like what Dilshan and Upul Tharanga played can only happen in home conditions where it’s possible to play 3 specialist spinners and a part time spinner (Dilshan) to bowl 50 overs of the match. Lets see how they fare against NZ in the semis today…and if they win…how they will play in India against either India or Pakistan!
We saw how they fared, right? Are you happy Duncie? And did you notice that Malinga got three wickets too, not just the spinners. What’s wrong with taking advantage of home conditions by the way?
Dear Shammi,
No Sanga…no Mahela…no Malinga…no Murali…NO Sri Lankan team! And now it looks like no Mathews for the finals. Dilshan blows hot blows cold…Thilan and Chamara Silva…the less said about them the better. Even in home conditions see how they struggled against NZ. Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai is not the R.Premadasa stadium. If they bat the way they did against NZ yesterday…and if they field the way they did against England…well then either India or Pakistan will be lifting the cup!
Anyone who knows something about cricket will appreciate thilan’s composure in that match, which you apparently can’t. Very telling i’d say, but not very surprising considering this wasn’t your first display of cricketing ignorance.
I like the second paragraph though..
What would happen if the commentators start to mention it…
Nothing would have happened. I’m so proud that they dont let these things affect the game. Such sensible men. So cool.
And Dunce,
sanga, mahela, malinga, murali.
Yeah that’s 4/11 team.
No sachin, no sehwag, no kohli, no dhoni, no india. Ask gambhir to hit a double century
I don’t think kohli being there makes a difference.
Dunce,
You forgot Dilshan. He’s in the ICC top 10.
Lefroy,
Lets see Dilshan score (like this coming Saturday) when it is really necessary! Remember the 2009 T20 Final against Pakistan where Dilshan scored in all the matches and failed in the finals! What I meant is that only Sanga, Mahela
Murali and Malinga can depended on to regularly score runs and take wickets.
Duncy loves da lankan team, he even loves mahinda. but he has a phobia and just pretends to be something totaly dif. c what has happened his great lion roar. mew meew lol
@dunce: u r simply not knwldgable enough to talk about lankan cricket. u look so stupid in ur crckt cmnts. we came to wc finals. ur hot favs r wheeping. ponting s still crying. chokers r gone. kiwis r gone. brits couldnt even stand up in the hot sun. they r gonna play ice hockey instead of crckt. lets see how lankans gonna face indians. i can still remember how kambly cried after loosing 96 semi to sl. lol. man lov to see smtng like that again.
You don’t always get what you want Podda. You and a majority in Sri Lanka want to see the SL team win the Finals. India is not a pushover like England. In recent encounters against SL they have come on top. YES SL came to the finals because all their key matches were played in SL. SL played much better cricket in the 2007 WC than this time around. SL is in now with a sniff at the Cup. But don’t expect the Indian team and over 1 billion fans to just hand it over on a platter to SL. And in the words of the ‘Highlander’ …”There can be only ONE.” My money is on India, and if I’m wrong…I will be the first one to admit it on Sunday morning.
ps. IF and when SL loses…please don’t start blaming it on an International Conspiracy ok…All the best!
Duncie, I’ll definitely blame you, if we were so unfortunate, you Jonah. But I liked Highlander too. Why dont they telecast stuff like that anymore?
@dunce,
In any case Dunce, Sri Lanka is the first south asian team to qualify for 3 world cup finals. How about that.
About Dilshan. He scored 108 in a knockout match. You think that doesn’t matter?
Dunce, everyone knows that india won’t hand it to us on a platter. And most rational people know that we are at a disadvantage coming into this match, given the sheer batting firepower of india & how they are better suited against our spinners. Hopefully our chaps will replace chamara silva with thissara perera. & i hope Matthews recovers in time. If seems to me that your entire polemic about sri lankan cricket has degenerated into a bunch of platitudes.
They have also rejected Ranjit Fernando at Commercial Bank and appointed Lakshman Hulugalle
http://www.lbo.lk/fullstory.php?nid=1614462479
This happened yesterday.
This Ranjit Fernando wasn’t actually rejected, he just withdrew, and is not commenting. keeping mum.
I was really thinking, it wasn’t such a bad thing if pension schemes benefited from this, at least in the short run. Better than people like Harry J controlling things through dummy investors, and it isn’t likely that these moves will drive off the big players from the market when there seems to be a boom and a lot of promise. But what dismays me is that they appointed someone like that Hulugalla guy. Couldn’t they find anyone better? To me he’s always appeared like someone who just reads a script that’s handed to him.
that’s the point shammi. he’ll be reading off of the script
In any case I’m not a fan of this appointment. The government should stay the hell away from banks. In any case the two biggest share holders basically wanted him out. So he really had no choice.
Yea…yea..Lefroy and Dodo…
Please don’t also forget that Australia won the WC four times…THREE TIMES IN A ROW. Also remember that even though SL won the WC in 1996…Australia was still NO 1 in the ICC rankings. If SL wins this time around…Australia will still be NO 1 in the ICC rankings. All Dilshans 100s won’t be worth a rats arse if they lose the finals. Nobody remembers No 2! Only No 1! Replacing Chamara Silva with Thissara Perera would be logical move…but would Arvinda drop his blue eyed protégé for the finals? Hope springs eternal in the human heart…I doubt if Mathews will be fit by Saturday. I think Chamara will play and Matthews will be replaced by Thissara Perera. Murali will bowl with his hamstring injury, field badly and get one wicket for about 40 runs. Thankfully in cricket we have neutral umpires, neutral match referees, tv replays etc. So it will be good to see a good game on Saturday and not worry about any “JILMARTS” like what happens in elections here.
there you go duncies prediction. thissara perera in for matthews. murali 40 for 1. Given your track record about cricket predictions I’m sure all of these will come true.
However, unlike you, most of us would love it if sri lanka win on saturday, but even if we loose we can enjoy the cricket they played and appreciate the commitment they put to get there. Whether history will remember or forget the sri lankan performance in the finals should be left to posterity to decide. And frankly, I don’t know if too many people really give a damn about what history thinks of this performance.
And you have to be seriously stupid, or absurdly ignorant, to actually believe in that ‘jilmart’ story. I’m not going to explain here why.
@dunce: hv u learnt anythng other than da alphbt? Or r u js ignrnt? Didnt u say ausis or brits were gonna win? Oh right jus nw u realized they were playing away frm their country. icc no1 rank is better than a rats arse i guess. indians r gr8. Cos they won all wc matches without any home advantage. They beat brits scoring 330 runs. oh i forgot they also beat chokers. bloody strong ha. go ahead n put ur money on them hari bajjan fan boy.
@dunce: being lankan n hating da lankan team n lankan crckt is a phobia. go n get ur brain chkd. 4 us win or lose really doesnt matter. we jus enjoy watching our lankan team. they r better ppl than over rated indians or uncivilzd ausi jerks. lankans dont fix matches. they dont sldg. they r nt racist. we r proud of them.
Well Podda…
You said, “lankans dont fix matches. they dont sldg. they r nt racist. ”
1)Well so far no one has been caught red handed for match fixing…though there has been some doubts from time to time.
2)I guess according to you it’s called sledging only when it’s done in English…not when it’s done in Sinhala. (I have also always wondered what Sanga keeps muttering about behind the stumps? (Maybe he is reciting the Dhamma padda to the batsman on strike?)
3) Ha…ha…they aren’t racist. Please mention this again the day Sri Lanka elects a non Buddhist PresiDunce!
@Dunce,
If India wins tomorrow, I’ll use your own logic to shout out “you fucking Indians. It doesn’t count. You played in one of your own shitty cricket grounds. And Tendulkar is a woman and Dhoni is gay.”
@Dunce,
In case you don’t think Tendulkar’s a woman, consider this. No man can do what Tendulkar can do. We can be 99.99% certain that he’s not god neither a demi-god. Therefore he must be a woman.
By the way, I hate India. Those bastards fish in our seas. When we ask them to stop it, Nirupama Rao says they need time. That shameless bitch. Our small country is being raped everyday by India, which looks like a woman’s deformed right breast. Sadly we can do nothing about it. Today I read one blog post in which the blogger goes on and on wondering about what could be the reason that everybody hates India. It’s just that they’re fucking with us. They’ve been fucking with us for a long long time. Had Nehru had his way, we’d now be one of those shitty Indian states like Tamil Nadu.
I’d love it if we beat them.
I love how the Indian newspapers titled it as “Indian fisherman want more time to stop fishing in Lankan waters” – LOL
I hate India too.
@dunce: lets look at 3 points u mentioned above. 1. u said regarding bribes : no one hs bn caught redhnded, but hv some doubts. : r u da idiot who writes itn vimasuma script? u hvnt heard abt it? hv u? 2. re sangas sldging in sinhala: sometime bk i sw this topic bn discussed in an ausi crckt forum. the conclusion ws, allanna allanna means fuk u. lol. js say u dnt utand any fuking sinhala wrd without slinging mud@ a tru gntlman. 3. u said da lankan crkters r racist. bt look at da theory u used. wht do u want them to do? u wnt them to go n ask mahinda to chnge his religion. or u want them to chnge their symbolic lion to rat or smthing? no wndr u got a rats brain.
Well Podda…I guess you will have to wait another 4 years.
Love…hate…Hindi yuns fishing in Sri Rajapakistan waters? BIG brother Hindiyaarrrr?Jai Hoo? Yesterday was a blinder…I too loved Silly Lunket…but after it became Sri Rajapakistan….hmmm…can anyone guess how many bottles of arrack will be sold today? If today was a full moon day would people have consumed alcohol? I am assuming that everybody knows what today is? If India wins today and you guys could get your hands on me…would you kill me? …like I said yesterday was a blinder…and today…I don’t even want to think about it…but I guess when we wake up tomorrow we shall all be Sri RajaPakistanians? Win it for Murali? Oh my God…do you believe what Rogerproxy says? Lefroy, Shammi, Bonchi Baba, Dodo, Kane…what can I say…all the best.
Fucking Indians. It doesn’t count. You played in your own backyard.
They out played us and sanga’s tactical decisions, from team selections, to batting first, field settings, were very very questionable. Mahela’s knock was sublime though.
Hey, even to my inexpert eye it seemed like Sangakkara was doing something wrong with the bowlers, but I have a feeling that the Indians would have been unstoppable anyway, on that day.
Malinga taking Tendulkar’s wicket was as much of a high for me as Mahela’s innings. Poor Mahela, all that effort not paying off in the end, but what an effort.
The fear and uncertainty of the Indian spectators until the last couple of overs played was a treat to watch too. They, at least, seemed to have some healthy respect for our team, unlike some people.
Our openers screwed it up. I guess the pressure was too much for them. Zaheer Khan bowled 5 overs, 1 for 6. He’s not an exceptionally good bowler, and his bowling that day wasn’t exceptional either. Mahela, Kulasekara, and Perera showed that he can be hit, because his next five overs went for 54 runs.
Thilanga Sumathipala must be laughing all the way to the bank…
too many changes and fielding was pathetic. good game though. enjoyed it. lets try again next time.
Indi, you should write a sequel to “While The Cricket’s On, Take The Bank.”
You could call it, “While the cricket’s on, increase the price of gas, petrol and diesel not forgetting milk powder that might be increased either today or tomorrow.”
Dr Ranee Jayamaha rocks and it’s great she gets to have a prestigious (albeit non exec and honorary) position like chairman of HNB. She was very good at her job and should have been the first female Governor of the Central Bank but was screwed out of it by Chandrika who made a non-economist a governor and in some ways paved the way for the disgrace that is Cabraal.
http://thesundayleader.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112&catid=84