{"id":138064,"date":"2023-11-03T15:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T22:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138064"},"modified":"2023-11-03T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T22:20:03","slug":"sri-lanka-cricket-going-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/11\/03\/sri-lanka-cricket-going-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKA CRICKET- GOING BACKWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Many Sri Lankans have short memories.&nbsp; If they feel some sense of victory, they completely forget the past and look for new solutions and heroes.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is exactly what has happened to Sri Lanka Cricket at the World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was just two and half years ago, Sri :Lanka was demoted to the Associate Level&nbsp; as we fell short of qualifying for the top 8 teams.&nbsp; Sri Lanka had to find ways and means of qualifying&nbsp; for the Professional Level and compete with Emerging Nations such as Ireland, Netherlands, Nepal, Oman, Scotland. UAE, USA &nbsp; together with West Indies and Zimbabwe.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After rigorous competition, Sri Lanka won the Championship, with Netherlands&nbsp; as runners up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tournament did not attract high level public attention, compared with the ODI World Cup.&nbsp; But we had a strong squad consisting: Dasun Shanaka, Kusal Mendis, Sahan Arachchige,&nbsp; Charith Asalanka, Dananjaya de Silva, &nbsp;Wanindu Hasaranga, Dushan Hemantha, Chammika Karunaratne, Dimuth Karunaratne, Pathum Nissanka, Mahesh Pathirana, Kasun Rajitha, Sadeera Samarawicrema and Mahesh Theekshana.&nbsp; The hardwork and commitment by these team members were short remembered when World Cup 23 got underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The Cricket Management has very cleverly undermined the contributions made the Qualifying Squad.&nbsp; So far the Cricket Management has&nbsp; dropped players and introduced new players.&nbsp; They started with dropping&nbsp; Chammika Karunaratne, Dananjaya De Silva, Matheesa Pathirana and introduced Angelow Mathews and Dushmantha Chameera and appointed Kusal Mendis as Skipper ahead of Dananjaya De Silva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match against India was a clear demonstration by the players&nbsp; of their dissatisfaction, anger and sense of insecurity.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was an amazing defeat for Sri Lanka hitting the lowest level of confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dasun Shanaka continued as Skipper, when the team was out of the mainframe.&nbsp; He was a Leader, Fighter and non-controversial.&nbsp; Cricketing fans are with Dasun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Many Sri Lankans have short memories.&nbsp; If they feel some sense of victory, they completely forget the past and look for new solutions and heroes.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is exactly what has happened to Sri Lanka Cricket at the World Cup. It was just two and half years ago, Sri :Lanka was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138064","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\/138064","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=138064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}