Cricket Fan
When the Sri Lankan cricket team entered the world of test cricket in 1982, Wijewardena produced a Album call " Test Cricket Souvenir". This Album was publish because we got test cricket status and it had 11 songs about Sri Lankan cricket. "Thana nilla dige" of Saman De Silva became a super hit during the season of test matches and every big match in Colombo. Also Nihal Nelson, Vernon Perera, Mariazelle Gunathilake, Freddie Silva, Saman De Silva and Wijewardena vocalized this album.
Wijewardena was very worried and made a statement to 'Sathsara"(an art magazine in Sri Lanka) regarding the song "Thana nilla dige" and its singer Saman De Silva for not giving the due credit for the ownership of the song and publishing full page article about the song in a newspaper not mentioning the name of the originator.
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