Galle: Earlier in the year, Bigg Boss, India's copycat reality programme of the Pommy version of Big Brother, it is said, to have attracted millions of viewers.

Among those who watched with transfixed interest, it is said, were some members of that so-called board of contradiction, popularly known as the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

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Whether all the BCCI members watched with the same fascination, a genuine reality horror show also known at the first Test of the Idea Cup series staged at the Sinhalese Sports Club in far off Colombo, is another matter.

To add variety to the ongoing reality programme, the landscape for the second version of the series, the second Test, has been relocated to the south of Sri Lanka, where the ancient port of call, known as Galle, is situated. Ancient because it is claimed that Arab dhows once shipped African slaves to the island during the latter years of the Roman era and Roman galleys arrived to look for spices and other riches.