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| | Cricket News : Cricket proves welcome distraction from bloodshed in Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Cricket and the war in the North-East have co-existed side by side for decades with the country's favourite sport thriving despite the killings and bombings that have become a way of life here. |
 | | The 1996 world cup, which Sri Lanka won on the sub-continent, was almost scuppered when a powerful bomb in downtown Colombo, blamed on the tigers, killed 91 and injured 1,400 a few days before the tournament. |
 | | Sri Lanka's leading bowler Muttiah Muralitharan, a Tamil, is regarded as a legend by his countrymen. |
| www.keralanext.com /news/?id=801153 (601 words) |
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