As 500mph waves rifled across the Indian Ocean to mercilessly approach the shores of south-east Asia on December 26, 2004, the young and old were not to know their lives would be irretrievably changed.
Seventeen years have passed since Sri Lanka was swept aside by a magnitude 9.1 tsunami so destructive, 270,000 people died across 13 countries — 38,000 of the casualties from the island — with a £10billion relief fund raised internationally.
Middlesex off-spinner and England hopeful Thilan Walallawita
