1 CD, Mahinda Wijesinghe, cricket writer, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 12 tracks.
Track 1: [0:00-1:26] Wijesinghe talks being in retirement, bring an accountant, how he got into cricket in the 1970's, was captain of Bloomfield Cricket Club, getting into administration being the first Secretary of the Sri Lanka Cricket Foundation and how he led the way in the introduction of modern technology, [1:27-1:33] Interview stops.
Track 2: [0:00-2:31] Wijesinghe talks about how he has always been an innovator, using an example of how a shoulder injury as a school cricketer made him switch from being a bowler to an opening batsman, [2:32-3:17] Wijesinghe talks about how he established the Sri Lanka Cricket Foundation, [3:18-5:41] Wijesinghe talks about how a not out given against Bob Willis running out John Dyson inspired him to come up with the idea of the 3rd umpire.
Track 3: [0:00-4:31] Wijesinghe talks about incidents in the previous Test Match between England and Sri Lanka, how he believes batsman should not be able to appeal to the 3rd umpire and how only 3rd umpires should have access to slow motion footage.
Track 4: [0:00-1:59] Wijesinghe talks about playing village cricket in Huntingdon during the 1983 Cricket World Cup, [2:00-2:27] Wijesinghe complains against the commercialism of cricket with agreement from Wijesinghe, [2:28-3:46] Wijesinghe talks about how he seems himself as a part-time writer rather than a journalist and how he has now stopped because publications stopped publishing his writing on political reasons, [3:47-4:21] Wijesinghe talks about reasons for retirement and his family and not wanting to get into political disputes, [4:22-4:45] Rayvern Allen encourages Wijesinghe to speak freely, [4:46-5:43] Wijesinghe talks about wanting to look after his family and wanting to avoid death threats.
Track 5: [0:00-0:29] Wijesinghe briefly talks about the nature of death threats in Sri Lanka, [0:30-1:37] Wijesinghe talks about having the largest cricket library in Sri Lanka of about 1,000 books, [1:38-2:37] Rayvern Allen and Wijesinghe talks about S S Perera’s scrapbooks and how Wijesinghe started collecting pictures in his childhood, [2:37-3:37] Wijesinghe talks about collecting cricket books when overseas, [3:38-5:00] Wijesinghe talks about helping Muttiah Muralitharan with his bowling action.
Track 6: [0:00-3:24] Wijesinghe talks about using inspiration from C B Fry using a splint in bowling practice, how he got Muralitharan to do it and describes their practice sessions together, [3:25-4:53] Wijesinghe talks about how a Sri Lankan lawyer and Mark Nicholas got involved with a Muralitharan practice session at Lord's and how this led to 15 degree bend in the arm.
Track 7: [0:00-1:10] Wijesinghe talks about how he can tell if a bowler is throwing or not, especially with spinners and how throwing only helps fast bowlers, [1:11-2:53] Wijesinghe talks about how fast bowlers are more likely to throw and the issue should be dealt with the ICC board not umpires, [2:54-4:57] Wijesinghe talks about regulations for the 3rd umpire and discusses with Rayvern Allen the swapping of umpires during intervals.
Track 8: [0:00-1:13] Wijesinghe talks about his plan for rotation of umpires, [1:14-2:13] Wijesinghe talks about television moguls getting involved with cricket and Rayvern Allen talks about being in a transition phase, [2:14-5:11] Wijesinghe talks about his innovation for webbing on wicket-keeping gloves.
Track 9: [0:00-2:06] Wijesinghe talks about how Christopher Martin Jenkins said on Test Match Special he first came up with the 3rd umpire concept and how he said the same again in an article, [2:07-5:17] Wijesinghe talks about how he got the MCC to change the Laws of Cricket regarding an arithmetical error on the weight of cricket balls.
Track 10: Track is not available due to sensitive content.
Track 11: [0:00-4:53] Wijesinghe talks about trying to establish a cricket museum in Sri Lanka, visiting the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Bradman museums in Australia and correcting a fact in a book on Bill Ponsford that he is the only man to score a century in his first and last Test innings, [4:54-5:36] Wijesinghe talks owning C H Gunasekera's Middlesex cap and gold medal.
Track 12: [0:00-0:47] Rayvern Allen talks about S S Perera's cricket collection and the possibility of donating it to a museum, [0:48-1:22] Rayvern Allen praises the Lord's Museum and Adam Chadwick, [1:23-2:07] Wijesinghe talks about what a shame it is Sri Lanka does not have its own cricket society, [2:08-5:46] Wijesinghe talks about a visit to The Oval and being shown a scorecard of the match where Len Hutton made 364 and knew it was wrong because Bradman's name is not in the bowling list and how he realised his name was covered up by the frame.