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When Tillakaratne Dilshan played his final international matches this month, special attention was being paid by a forklift driver in Melbournes western suburbs. It drew his interest not because he was Australian and Dilshan was playing against Australia, but because he was a Sri Lankan for whom the moment had personal significance.His name is Indika Gallage, and last century he and Dilshan shared an international debut.The year was 1999. Sri Lanka had just completed a historic series win over Australia. Gallage and Dilshan had both played against the Australians in tour games that year - in one match Michael Slater was caught Dilshan bowled Gallage - but neither of the Sri Lankans was called on to play in a Test.The following month, the Sri Lankans headed to Zimbabwe without Aravinda de Silva, who withdrew for personal reasons, nor Arjuna Ranatunga, who was not selected. And when fast bowler Nuwan Zoysa was ruled out of the first Test, in Bulawayo, due to illness, it meant three men would make their Test debuts: Dilshan, Gallage and Indika de Saram.The trio would go on to very different international careers. Dilshan played 497 games for Sri Lanka across all formats, including 87 Tests. De Saram played only 20 internationals, including four Tests, and was picked out of the blue for one T20 against India in 2009, nearly eight years after he last played for Sri Lanka. Gallage had to settle for four internationals, three of which were ODIs.Bulawayo would be his solitary Test cap. He felt he bowled well there, albeit without taking a wicket, but by the second Test, in Harare, Zoysa was well enough to resume his place in the side and duly claimed a hat-trick with his first three deliveries, in the second over of the match. Zoysa missed the third Test with a groin strain, but Ravindra Pushpakumara was preferred there to Gallage.But Gallage remains the 81st man to play Test cricket for Sri Lanka, and hanging on a shelf of cricket trophies and memorabilia in his Melbourne home is his Sri Lanka Test cap. A right-arm fast-medium bowler who was good enough to claim 293 first-class wickets at 22.19 in a 113-match career, Gallage still plays the game, although now hes perhaps more medium than fast-medium.He will turn 41 in November, but looks younger than his age. He is about to enter his 11th consecutive season with the Sunshine Druids Cricket Club in Melbourne, and hopes there are a couple more years left in him. He smiles when asked if he still loves cricket.Yes - too much, he says. Im 40 years old. I will still play, they still have a contract for me. This is my 11th year with the same club, Sunshine Druids ... I have to maintain my body. I have a short run-up now.He remains in touch with Dilshan, who is a year younger. It frustrates Gallage to see a player such as Dilshan moved on from international cricket to make room for younger men. After Dilshans last ODI, in Dambulla in August, he was replaced by the 18-year-old opener Avishka Fernando, who had not played so much as a single first-class or List A game.Dilshan could continue playing... what is too old? Gallage says. All the time in Sri Lankan school cricket, guys get two or three centuries and get picked in a Sri Lanka A team, and no first-class cricket. Its not good. Youve got to play first-class cricket.By the time of his Test debut, Gallage himself had played 55 first-class matches. He did his chances of selection for the Bulawayo Test a world of good by claiming 6 for 60 in a tour match against the Zimbabwe Cricket Union Presidents XI. At a team meeting in the lead-up to the Test, Gallage was told he was in the XI, and he later received his cap from the captain, Sanath Jayasuriya.But in the first innings of the Test, Gallage bowled 14 overs for 53 without a wicket, and in the second innings he took 0 for 24 off 11 overs. Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan did the bulk of the bowling, and Pramodya Wickramasinghe took the lions share of the wickets. I had the performances in first-class cricket and in the three-day [tour] game, Gallage says. I bowled well in the Test but didnt get a wicket. Then I didnt get picked for the second Test. It was my one chance, thats it. It was almost the same in one-dayers. I played my first one-dayer in Zimbabwe, in Harare. I did well. Then two games in New Zealand, then never got picked again.I bowled well in my last one-dayer - nine overs, 42 for two wickets. I dont know why I didnt get picked again. In my first game in New Zealand I bowled seven overs, thirty-something for one wicket. I got Nathan Astle out. Then in my last game, I got [Adam] Parore and [Craig] Spearman out. Then I dont know what happened.What happened was that Gallages international career was over, and he ended up signing a contract to play league cricket in England. Then he joined Sunshine Druids and moved with his wife and young daughter to Melbourne. Eleven years and two more children later - his two sons were born in Australia - Gallage is still in Melbourne. He has permanent residency, and intends to stay.He remains in touch with some of his former team-mates, men like Zoysa and Rangana Herath, as well as Dilshan. But he is far from alone in Melbourne, which is now home to numerous former Sri Lanka cricketers. The likes of Asanka Gurusinha, Ravi Ratnayeke and Saliya Ahangama have lived in Melbourne for decades, but others such as Chanaka Welegedara, Rumesh Ratnayake and Dulip Liyanage are more relatively recent arrivals.Its a good country, Gallage says of Australia. Now I work as a forklift driver full-time, part-time cricketer... but I have still got the Test cap.USA Soccer Pro Shop . Arsenal failed to take full advantage of its main rivals stumbles on Saturday as substitute Gerard Deulofeu levelled with a hard shot from a tight angle in the 84th minute to give Everton a deserved point. Ahead of a crucial fortnight that will see them play against Napoli in the Champions League, Manchester City and Chelsea, Arsenal leads by five points ahead of Liverpool and Chelsea. Cheap USA Soccer Jerseys .com) - Richie Incognito has reportedly been admitted to a psychiatric care unit in Arizona. https://www.cheapusasoccer.com/ . 4 Villanova with a 96-68 drubbing on Monday. 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