text: In 1996, he was highly commended by the then Sri Lanka Cricket Board in becoming of great assistance to them, as single-handedly, Perera accepted and satisfactorily completed its highly technical assignment to streamline the rules and regulations governing 2, 3 and 4-day Division – 1, Division – 2 and under 24 Major Tournament Cricket in Sri Lanka.
  Seated on a Wheelchair, battling paraplegia and balancing a laptop, he even Authored Two A – 4 size Internationally famed books on Cricket, The Golden Era of Sri Lankan Cricket (May 1999)  and Thinking Cricket (September 2001) . They were also Published by him without any external financial support.
  In December 1999, at the request of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board, Perera designed and conducted over four half-days the FIRST Formal Training and Evaluation Programme for the top Sri Lanka Cricket Scorers, in preparation for the under-19 Cricket World Cup Tournament that was held in Sri Lanka in January 2000.
  Perera has also turned a pioneer dis-Ability Activist campaigning in Sri Lanka for Accessible built Sports Environments for Al and user-friendly Facilities.