Sri Lanka, Aug. 26 -- A way from the squabbles for position, political bickering, jockeying for prominence and egoism and the unprecedented forms of corruption, cricketers from a village school have exposed the self-styled pundits and created a record that perhaps no privileged school has ever been able to do.

Being in school cricket for just around 20 years, Devapathiraja College's cricketers entered three top shelf finals, Under-13, 15 and 17, winning the crown in the latter age group with mere mental determination and physical drive to reinforce their passion for cricket on the field.

"The players had just one goal in mind and that was to show the elite schools that what they can do we can do better by asking for nothing", said Deva...