{"id":50327,"date":"2015-12-20T22:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T04:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50327"},"modified":"2015-12-20T15:12:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T22:12:57","slug":"mahela-and-kumars-retirement-delay-hampered-youngesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/12\/20\/mahela-and-kumars-retirement-delay-hampered-youngesters\/","title":{"rendered":"MAHELA AND KUMAR\u2019S RETIREMENT DELAY HAMPERED YOUNGESTERS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Historical analysis of batting performances of Mahela and Kumar showed a dramatic downturn in batting trends during 4 years prior to their retirement.\u00a0 Except on occasions playing against England, they did not perform well.\u00a0 Perhaps the intent had been to be in the record books at the Lords and other premier Clubs in England, instead of playing for Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from gaining glory through\u00a0 England factor, the local politics also played a significant role in the delay of announcement.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is no secret that both of them eyed for major political role with the opposition at that time,\u00a0\u00a0 still not absolutely certain of victory for opposition victory, hence continued playing cricket instead.<\/p>\n<p>This has delayed the introduction of youngsters to the national team by three to four years.\u00a0 Its impact will be felt at the next years T20 world cup as well as the next ODI world cup to be held in England in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>We are fortunate to gradually build the team around Angelow Mathews, with Dimuth, Chandimal, Kusal, Udara, Chameera etc., with determination to bring victory for Sri Lanka than for their personal glory.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of all rounders is still seen as a major set back for Sri Lanka.\u00a0 The batting performances of the last 4 tailenders require significant improvement.\u00a0 This group of 4 tailers\u00a0 have not been able to accumulate an average of 35 runs\u00a0 in most of our innings, when other major team tailenders have been able to play with superior batting skills.\u00a0\u00a0 We draw the attention of the selectors to this major area, where improvement is essential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Historical analysis of batting performances of Mahela and Kumar showed a dramatic downturn in batting trends during 4 years prior to their retirement.\u00a0 Except on occasions playing against England, they did not perform well.\u00a0 Perhaps the intent had been to be in the record books at the Lords and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50327","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\/50327","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=50327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}