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Rajendra inherited substantial assets including half share of the family home "Sukhasthan" at Horton Place, Colombo 7. They had four daughters. The marriage turned out to be an unhappy one with Anandam Rajendra filling for divorce in 1944 and again in 1951, after he had started an
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and later captained its team. He first played for Ceylon in 1945, when international matches started with visiting teams after the end of the war. In 1948, in a controversial decision of the Ceylon
Cricket Association selected Mahadeva Sathasivam of the Tamil Union to lead the All-Ceylon XI team.
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and digestion pattern of her stomach and intestine contents. Then he focused on the myriad injuries on the body and the condition of her dress, which contradicted the statement of
William. The jury deliberated only a little and acquitted Sathasivam and convicted William.
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In 1951, Sathasivam was arrested and accused of murdering his wife
Paripoornam Ananda Rajendra, who was found dead at her garage adjacent to the kitchen on 9 October 1951. He was acquitted after a twenty-month sensational trial, having spent twenty-months in
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called him "the best batsman he had ever seen". He was the first, and probably the only, man to captain three national teams. Sathasivam played cricket in the 1940s through the 1960s. He was captain of the Ceylon team in 1948, and then captain of the
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He later married Yvonne
Stevenson in London, they had three children. Sathasivam settled in Singapore where he captained its cricket team, and then later, after that island's merger with its northern neighbour, Sathasivam led the
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Sathasivam started his cricketing career in his school days, playing for St. Joseph's and later for Wesley
College until 1937. He then played in the club level matches, playing for the
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team. He was accused and acquitted of murdering his wife, which gained much attention in Ceylon.
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K.K.S.Perera for the Island (දිවයින - සී/ස උපාලි පුවත්පත් සමාගම)
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500:"Mahadevan Sathasivam Cricket Legend of Sri Lanka"
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570:"Mostly Murder: Sir Sydney Smith's Autobiography"
775:Singaporean people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent
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755:Prisoners and detainees of Sri Lanka
410:, Colombo: Sumathi Publishers, p. 57
760:Sri Lankan prisoners and detainees
720:Malaysian people of Indian descent
633:Veera, Sriram (14 December 2005).
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785:Alumni of Wesley College, Colombo
278:team, and finally captain of the
544:"Sathasivam murder 70 years on"
790:Ceylon Light Infantry officers
659:Muthiah, S (7 November 2005).
598:Sathasivam the batting maestro
325:affair with Yvonne Stevenson.
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740:The Rest (Bombay) cricketers
243:Mahadevan "Satha" Sathasivam
306:, he was commissioned as a
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604:by Christie Seneviratne;
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454:. Island. Archived from
406:Gunasekara, C.H. (1996)
745:Sri Lankan Tamil people
661:"The finest at Chepauk"
608:Wesley College Colombo"
600:by Edmund Dissanayake;
530:18 October 2004 at the
478:"Ceylon Light Infantry"
296:Wesley College, Colombo
498:Epasinghe, Premasara.
395:References & notes
342:Sathasivam murder case
322:Ponnambalam Ramanathan
735:All-Ceylon cricketers
730:Sri Lankan cricketers
674:– via Newsbank.
635:"A Sri Lankan master"
312:Ceylon Light Infantry
298:. With the on set of
286:Early life and family
694:Mahadevan Sathasivam
688:Mahadevan Sathasivam
408:The Willow Quartette
292:St. Joseph's College
183:5 wickets in innings
38:Personal information
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192:10 wickets in match
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329:Cricketing career
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103:First-class
99:Competition
67:9 July 1977
709:Categories
382:Later life
49:1915-10-18
665:The Hindu
389:Malaysian
280:Malaysian
276:Singapore
263:Sri Lanka
255:Sri Lanka
210:stumpings
143:Top score
670:18 March
644:18 March
528:Archived
506:16 March
462:16 March
450:Perera.
304:Far East
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208:Catches/
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483:9 March
310:in the
302:in the
294:and at
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109:Matches
82:Batting
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554:6 June
430:15 May
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