{"id":52647,"date":"2016-03-05T05:15:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T12:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52647"},"modified":"2016-03-05T05:15:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T12:15:52","slug":"world-cup-t2o-proposed-sri-lankan-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/05\/world-cup-t2o-proposed-sri-lankan-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD CUP T2O \u2013 PROPOSED SRI LANKAN\u00a0 SQUAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>BY M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>During the recently concluded Asia Cup T20, Sri Lanka won only one match\u00a0 and that was against the UAE.\u00a0\u00a0 Victory was not convincing, winning by a meagre 14 runs. Bangladsh beat UAE by 51 runs, Pakistan beat UAE by 7 wickets and mighty India beat UAE by 9 wickets.\u00a0 It was Lasith Malinga factor eventuated Sri Lanka success, as he took 4 wickets, otherwise Sri Lankan Cricket was destined for a funeral parlour.<\/p>\n<p>Tissara Perera did not stand upto his much publicised reputation as an all rounder.\u00a0 In the 3 matches played by him against Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, he had given 71 runs and taken 2 wickets.\u00a0 In the two innings he batted, did score 21 runs.\u00a0\u00a0 He cannot be ranked as an all rounder, in comparison with other players in competing teams.<\/p>\n<p>In T20 format, the concept of specialist batsmen is no longer an attractive, affordable\u00a0 or\u00a0 effective option.\u00a0 Based on the pitch, and other conditions, the skipper must have at his disposal variety of players who could handle both bat and the ball in quick succession.\u00a0 We propose the following squad of 15 players, recognising the all round skills (AR), for the upcoming World Cup:<\/p>\n<p>AR BAT\u00a0 BOWLER MF\u00a0 ANGELO MATHEW<\/p>\n<p>AR BAT\u00a0 BOWLER RAM\u00a0 CHAMARA KAPUGEDERA<\/p>\n<p>AR BAT BOWLER\u00a0\u00a0 RAM\u00a0 DANUSHKA GUNATILEKK<\/p>\n<p>AR BAT\u00a0 BOWLER RAOB DILSHAN TILEKRATNE<\/p>\n<p>AR BAT BOWLER\u00a0 RAOB SACHITHRA SENANAYAKE<\/p>\n<p>AR BAT BOWLER SLA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MILINDA SIRIWARDENE<\/p>\n<p>AR BAT BOWLER\u00a0 LB\u00a0 JEEVAN MENDIS<\/p>\n<p>AR BOWLER RAFM\u00a0 NUWAN KULASEKERA<\/p>\n<p>BAT\u00a0 KITHRUWAN VITHANAGE<\/p>\n<p>BAT BOWLER RAOB\u00a0 SHEHAN JAYASURIYA<\/p>\n<p>BAT WK DINESH CHANDIMAL<\/p>\n<p>BOWLER RAF DUSHMANTHA CHAMEERA<\/p>\n<p>BOWLER RAF LASITH MALINGA<\/p>\n<p>BOWLER RAFM\u00a0 DAMMIKA PRASAD<\/p>\n<p>BOWLER SLA\u00a0 SPIN RANGANA HERATH<\/p>\n<p>We wish courage and determination to Sri Lankan Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY M D P DISSANAYAKE During the recently concluded Asia Cup T20, Sri Lanka won only one match\u00a0 and that was against the UAE.\u00a0\u00a0 Victory was not convincing, winning by a meagre 14 runs. Bangladsh beat UAE by 51 runs, Pakistan beat UAE by 7 wickets and mighty India beat UAE by 9 wickets.\u00a0 It [&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-52647","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\/52647","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=52647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}