Bird opens door to top flight for private school cricketers

By Peter Munro
Updated January 15 2013 - 5:18pm, first published December 29 2012 - 3:00am
In the middle … Danul Dassanayake, 16, is playing first grade for Mosman until he resumes for the Trinity first XI after the school holidays.
In the middle … Danul Dassanayake, 16, is playing first grade for Mosman until he resumes for the Trinity first XI after the school holidays.

HE'S a boy among men, with thick braces on his teeth and cricket pads so new they squeak as he walks to the wicket, drawing sledges from his first-grade opponents. But what makes 16-year-old Danul Dassanayake special is not so much his age as his private-school pedigree.

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