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Celebrating 190 years of George Steuart
Sunday Island
|August 17, 2025
It was a night when a nation dared to dream. On a noisy March evening in 1996, Sri Lanka stunned India in the World Cup semifinal in Calcutta, booking their ticket to Lahore for a date with destiny.
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As firecrackers lit up the skies in Colombo and fans took to the streets in celebrations, two former schoolboy captains hatched a plan that would put their company, George Steuart, in the thick of cricket folklore.
Bernard Wijetunga of St. Peter's and Channa Wijemanne of D.S. Senanayake both employees of the country's oldest mercantile establishment drove straight to the home of their boss, S. Skandakumar, himself a Royal College cricketer. The pitch was laid: charter a flight to Lahore for the final. Skandakumar didn't need a second invitation.
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