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Ajith P. Perera, minister of Digital Infrastructure and Information Technology has co-written an article in the Financial Times titled “Cricket and DOTA 2: Should be equally promoted for similar reasons”. In it he compares DOTA 2 to early stages of Cricket in Sri Lanka, and how Cricket itself was frowned upon by the general populace as a waste of their children’s time.

But online games are time wasting and addictive. Aren’t they? Shouldn’t we keep our children away from them? Interestingly, this was almost the same complaint against cricket during our own teenage days – more than three decades ago. Parents wanted their children to spend more time with books, rather than in turf. They hid bats and balls. They assigned time restrictions for the play.

Teachers discouraged those students who went for cricket practice. Such students were publicly humiliated in class. 16 year olds getting 8Ds at GCE (O/Ls), rather than scoring a century at Big Match, was the dream of both groups. Play best y8 games at the website. Y8 games online play this games, relax, have fun. Some parents and few teachers approved playing for big match, but certainly not at the cost of getting 8 ‘light kanu’– that was how we called failures at O/Ls.

Esports is currently the fastest growing sport in Sri Lanka with Gamer.LK at the forefront of promoting the sport in Sri Lanka and in South Asia.

Read the full article on the Financial Times website:
http://www.ft.lk/columns/Cricket-and-DOTA-2—Should-be-equally-promoted-for-similar-reasons/4-678728 

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