{"id":103834,"date":"2020-06-23T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T09:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103834"},"modified":"2020-06-23T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T09:56:09","slug":"world-cup-final-2011-results-vs-personal-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/23\/world-cup-final-2011-results-vs-personal-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD CUP FINAL 2011 \u2013 RESULTS vs PERSONAL GLORY"},"content":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

1.<\/strong>   \nTEAM\nINSTABILITY AT THE TOP:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So\nfar in the game of Sri Lankan Cricket, there had been only one Leader who rose\nto the occasion and won  the world cup final to Sri Lanka.  \nThat was none other than Arjuna Ranatunga.  Since then, we had big names,\nAravinda De Silva, Ravi Ratnayake, Roshan Mahanama, Chaminda Vass, Lahiru\nThirimanne, Upul Tharanga, Chamara Kapugedera, Lasith Malinga, Hashan\nTilekeratne,  Sanath Jayasuriya, Marvan Atapattu, Angelow Mathews, Rangana\nHerath, Dinesh Chandimal,  Dilshan Tilekeratne,  Suranga Lakmal,\nMahela Jayawardene,  Kumar Sangakkara, Tissara Perera and currently Dimuth\nKarunaratne.   This is a staggering list of 20  players as ODI\ncaptains, whilst not all of them had the opportunity to face a World Cup Final,\nnone of them succeeded.  Change of 20 captains is an alarming situation,\nin order to critically examine the reasons for our failure to win a world cup\nsince days of Arjuna Ranatunga, it is imperative to conduct Leadership\nSuccessive Planning strategy post-mortem, which will help in our future goal\nsetting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.<\/strong>     \n2011\nWORLD CUP FINAL:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At\nthe end of the game, the economy rate of fast bowlers were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lasith\nMalinga:   4.67, Nuwan Kulasekera 7.8 and Tissera Perera 6.11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At\nthe end, the spinners had following unused overs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suraj\nRandiv  1,  Dilshan  5 and Murali  2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During\n41 to 50 overs, out of spinners, only Suraj Randiv  ( comparatively a new\ncomer )was chosen for  bowling, and in 3 overs  India scored 12 runs,\nan excellent performance by the spinner.   Murali had 2 more overs\nleft ( with no wicket), with economy rate of  4.88, but was not used\nduring these overs.   Dilshan had 5 more overs left, ( with one\nwicket) with a economy rate of  5.40, but was also not used during these\novers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During\nthese overs, Yuvraj Singh and M S Dhoni were batting.  It is well known\nYuvraj Singh had  been vulnerable against spin bowling with the moving\nball and his foot movements. MS Dhoni has failed in many instances, playing\nagainst spin bowling, under pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nSpinners were replaced by fast bowling attack. Tissara Perera gave 12 runs in 2\novers, Lasith Malinga gave 14 runs in 2 overs and  Nuwan Kulasekera \ngave 18 runs in two overs.  Why part-time spinner Dilshan and world best\nspinner Murali were not used during death bowling?   If Suraj\nRandiv was effective in 3 overs, why others two spinners were ignored?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did\nany bad blood interfere with decision making on the field?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though\nsome individual players achieved hallmarks, they cannot be ranked in the top\ncategory of Captains like Arjuna Ranatunga.  <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE 1.    TEAM INSTABILITY AT THE TOP: So far in the game of Sri Lankan Cricket, there had been only one Leader who rose to the occasion and won  the world cup final to Sri Lanka.   That was none other than Arjuna Ranatunga.  Since then, we had big names, Aravinda De […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}