On 25 January 1990, Sri Lanka's Deputy Defence
Minister, Ranjan Wijeratne declared in Sri Lanka's
Parliament:
"You cannot do things under normal law. It takes a
lot of time. By the time my good friends who are
lawyers take time to solve these things, the match
will be over. We have finished the first eleven and
the second eleven. Now we are tackling the under
fourteen fellows." (Sri Lanka Hansard, Volume 62,
Column 1249, proceedings of 25 January 1990)