Galle makes slow recovery
- 15 Dec 07, 12:29 PM
Everyone knows what happened here when the tsunami struck on Boxing Day 2004.
The scars of that dreadful day remain along both sides of the bustling road that clings to the coast between Colombo and Galle – shells of houses with walls missing and their roofs ripped off.
The tsunami hit much of southern Asia – and beyond – but the focus for the cricketing world was Galle.
We have all played or watched cricket on this ground with, at the sea end, the apparently indestructible 17th century Dutch fort which saved many lives that day when boys from Harrow School were playing on the ground.
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