{"id":73026,"date":"2017-12-23T00:36:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T06:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73026"},"modified":"2017-12-22T06:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T13:56:31","slug":"christian-crucifix-culture-and-lack-of-respect-for-national-anthem-can-god-help-sri-lankan-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/12\/23\/christian-crucifix-culture-and-lack-of-respect-for-national-anthem-can-god-help-sri-lankan-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTIAN CRUCIFIX CULTURE and LACK OF RESPECT FOR NATIONAL ANTHEM.\u00a0 \u00a0CAN GOD HELP SRI LANKAN CRICKET?-"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Lack of physical fitness amongst the Sri Lankan cricketers is a major drawback.\u00a0 In a Workshop held this week in Sydney for coaching under 15 cricketers several slides of Sri Lankan cricketers were shown ( with their eyes covered) to demonstrate the Sri Lankan\u00a0 international players were \u00a0puffing and panting after few minutes of playing.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 It was revealed that the Sri Lankan National squad players ( country not directly identified) cannot even do 10 push-ups in a training session).<\/strong><\/p>\n

When other players are continuing to play under unfavourable weather conditions, our players appears to be exhausted, requiring drinks, muscle treatments etc.\u00a0 Some players come to bat, after facing few overs, request change of gloves from the dressing room, demonstrating lack of preparedness.<\/p>\n

They are lacking self-confidence.\u00a0 At the Workshop in Sydney, it was also revealed (once again the name of the country not mentioned) that those who are playing at the National Level in Sri Lanka would not have had any chance of being selected even for a Divisional Cricket Tournament in Australia.\u00a0 In comparison, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan have developed the techniques with well \u00a0founded strategies, in line with professional sportsmen elsewhere.<\/p>\n

To overcome the\u00a0 lack of self-confidence and stamina, they have started seeking redress from the Divine Intervention<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 The Buddhist players carry a bundle of Pirith Nule\u00a0 wrapped around their hands.\u00a0\u00a0 Can a piece of thread help someone to bat, bowl or field, surpassing the skills of your competitor?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sri Lankan Christian players never hide their religious identity.\u00a0 The whole world knows the religion of Angelow Mathews, Tissara Perera, Kusal Mendis, Nuwan Pradeep, Niroshan Dickwella, Ajantha Mendis, Dammika Prasad etc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

How many SL players lose their wicket just after reaching 50?\u00a0 Those who score 50 will almost require a cool drink, as if he has climbed the Mt Everest. The players look to the heaven if they score a boundary, six, 50 and get out for the next delivery.<\/p>\n

Foreigners \u00a0\u00a0ridicule and down grade Sri Lankan cricketers, calling that SL\u2019s are trying to win matches through inspirational \u00a0\u00a0BLACK MAGIC, instead of Training, Development and Commitment to the game.<\/p>\n

The Players of predominantly Christian countries, play their game, without disclosing their religious affiliations. Wearing Pirith \u00a0Nule and placing Crucifix must be banned for the players in Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most players fail to respect the National Anthem at the beginning of the game. It is quite clear vast majority of key players and skippers are not familiar with the Namo Namo Matha.\u00a0 \u00a0After all, our own Prime Minister Rt Hon Ranil Wickremasinghe insulted the National Anthem and the country in public, by chatting with a colleague \u00a0\u00a0while National Anthem was playing.<\/strong>\u00a0 Unfortunately if the Leader\u00a0 of our country, \u00a0who was educated at the Royal College \u00a0disrespect the his own country\u2019s National Anthem, what happens at the ground level is a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Lack of physical fitness amongst the Sri Lankan cricketers is a major drawback.\u00a0 In a Workshop held this week in Sydney for coaching under 15 cricketers several slides of Sri Lankan cricketers were shown ( with their eyes covered) to demonstrate the Sri Lankan\u00a0 international players were \u00a0puffing and panting […]<\/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-73026","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\/73026","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=73026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}