Shihan Wijesinghe
Amila Aponsu is one of the main left-arm spinners at the highest national level. He plays for Ragama Cricket Club
“Depressed, distressed, and disheartened, a large number of Sri Lanka national and first-class cricketers are planning to migrate to the USA for professional cricket, sending shockwaves to country’s cricket future,” The Morning said on 17 February in our back-page lead story.
Joining Shehan Jayasuriya, who had already migrated to USA then, would be more than a dozen, we revealed in that report in February and yesterday (10) another leading national white-ball cricketer Amila Aponsu joined the fray indicating a slow but sure player exodus to the US!