{"id":81216,"date":"2018-09-21T07:04:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81216"},"modified":"2018-09-21T07:04:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T14:04:13","slug":"possible-return-of-dilshan-to-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/21\/possible-return-of-dilshan-to-international-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"POSSIBLE RETURN OF DILSHAN TO INTERNATIONAL CRICKET"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It was great to hear that Dilshan is contemplating full return to internatonal cricket, at least until the next world cup.\u00a0 He will inject much needed skills to the game, hopefully bring back the glory of the game\u00a0 to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Some may criticise the window of opportunity to be provided to Dilshan as a desperate move.\u00a0 Naturally these are desperate times for the game, if possible even bring back Roshan Mahanama, Sanath , Kalu and Arjuna, to add value to the game.<\/p>\n<p>It is no secret that during last stages of Dilshan\u2019s career, he did not get the co-operation and respect from some of the players who worked on personal vendetta to destroy Dilshan. Dilshan on his part scummbed to powerful <strong>small club<\/strong>\u201d and retired.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully the small club\u201d is no more in the team, the door is open to greats of yester-years to play freely under the guidance of Hathurusinghe and Gurusinghe.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Cricket need a new Leader in place of Angelo Mathews.\u00a0 Dilshan is a flexible and likeable person, it is best if he join as a batsman and a part-time bowler, under the leadership of a fit, energetic and young player as Skipper for all three formats of the game.\u00a0 <strong>We need to develop a leadership succession pathways to a group of aspiring leaders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We need Sri Lanka to destroy its opponents in a similar fashion to Afgans are delivering at the moment,\u00a0 a replica of Sanath and Kalu Tonic\u201d. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE It was great to hear that Dilshan is contemplating full return to internatonal cricket, at least until the next world cup.\u00a0 He will inject much needed skills to the game, hopefully bring back the glory of the game\u00a0 to Sri Lanka. Some may criticise the window of opportunity to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81216","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=81216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}