World Cup-winning Sri Lanka player serves tea and buns
Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence in 1948, and the island nation has been unable to finance the import of necessities such as food, medicines and fuel since late last year. The country has also been hit severely by a record high inflation and lengthy power blackouts, which have eventually led to protests calling on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down
The South Asian nation is struggling to find a foreign exchange to pay for desperately needed fuel imports, and its existing stock of petrol and diesel is projected to run out in a matter of days. While the country is in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout package, people have swarmed gas stations, resulting in a long line of vehicles stretching several kilometres.
Amid the crisis, Roshan Mahanama, who was a part of the Sri Lankan cricket team that won the 1996 ODI World Cup, shared pictures of him serving tea and buns to people lining up at the petrol station.
“We served tea and buns with the team from Community Meal Share this evening for the people at the petrol queues around Ward Place and Wijerama mawatha. The queues are getting longer by the day and there will be many health risks to people staying in queues,” Mahanama wrote on Twitter.
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