This episode is looking at what happened before Sri Lanka became a thing in world cricket. For many of us, Sri Lanka were always there, but they are still a very new side, and so to explain their history we got on someone who had written a book on them, Nicholas Brookes. We talk about chair rental, Danish Cricket, boycotting Israel, 1975 World Cup, Thommo, the 1979 World Cup and what might have been if Sri Lanka had not beaten India. - Check out the 99.94 DM App here: https://9994dm.com/. To support the podcast please go to our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32090121. If you like this podcast, you may enjoy other things I create, check them all out at https://linktr.ee/jarrodkimber. Buy his book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Islands-Eleven-Story-Lankan-Cricket/dp/0750998814 Find Nicholas on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/brookeswrites. This podcast audio is edited, mixed and produced by Nick McCorriston, he's at https://www.nickamc.com and https://www.twitter.com/soundboy_audio FortyTwo make our video productions, and Mukunda Bandreddi is in charge of our video side. Aurojyoti Senapati turns the files into video podcasts and Subhankar Bhattacharya makes our graphics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices