{"id":81148,"date":"2018-09-18T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81148"},"modified":"2018-09-18T16:15:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T23:15:36","slug":"downfall-of-sri-lankan-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/18\/downfall-of-sri-lankan-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"DOWNFALL OF SRI LANKAN CRICKET"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

We have lost so much interest in the game as we have lost confidence in the Sri Lankan squad.\u00a0 In fact writing or commenting about them itself is an absolute waste of time.<\/p>\n

In the first game SL lost to Bangladesh.\u00a0 Around 260 runs was not a formidable task in modern day ODIs.\u00a0\u00a0 Our bowlers did very well contain BD players with an enormous apitite to win, with or without HATHURUSINHE.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was the batsmen who crumbled, very early days definition of SL cricketers as Wooden Spooners, is still valid.<\/p>\n

So the surgery for the next match should be looking at our batsmen, not bowlers.<\/p>\n

The disgusting selectors omitted SURANGA LAKMAL, APONSO AND DILRUWAN PERERA. When there is a problem, you need to follow a certain sequence, such as :<\/p>\n

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  1. Define the problem<\/li>\n
  2. Analyse the problem<\/li>\n
  3. Develop\u00a0 alternative solutions<\/li>\n
  4. Make a decision<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Everyone knew the difficulty factor faced by the batsmen, but our selectors chopped the bowlers but retained the same bunch of batsmen with Shehan Jayasuriya, Dushmantha and Akila joining the team.<\/p>\n

    At the beginning of match against Afgan match,\u00a0 Angelow Mathews was visibly freightened,\u00a0 he said, We forget the past and JUST GO AND HAVE FUN\u201d.\u00a0 Are you guys are paid to have fun? By looking at Angelow Mathews facial expressions at the commencement, I knew we do not have an aggressive leader and will lose the match.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In the past few years, Rangana Herath, Chandimal and Lakmal have delivered results, not Angelow. \u00a0\u00a0As Rangana is semi retired, Lakmal should take over for the world cup preparation, if Chandimal is constantly either sick or vulnerable to other adverse situations.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    By M D P DISSANAYAKE We have lost so much interest in the game as we have lost confidence in the Sri Lankan squad.\u00a0 In fact writing or commenting about them itself is an absolute waste of time. In the first game SL lost to Bangladesh.\u00a0 Around 260 runs was not a formidable task in […]<\/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-81148","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\/81148","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=81148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}