{"id":85229,"date":"2019-01-31T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85229"},"modified":"2019-01-31T14:26:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:26:27","slug":"coach-should-not-be-blamed-for-poor-team-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/01\/31\/coach-should-not-be-blamed-for-poor-team-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Should Not Be Blamed For Poor\u00a0 Team Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top spin by Suni<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

31st Jan 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Team fails so the coach is to blame?<\/p>\n

No Sir !! Not true at all. It’s the team that has failed in the face of its incapability to face\u00a0 real fast bowling and the lack of good captaincy.The loss of Angelo Mathews surely becomes a pivotal point here.<\/p>\n

The performance of the team in the first Test at Brisbane was a shambles on the part of Sri Lanka and a reflection of what the team has been reduced to today regardless of who is coaching.<\/p>\n

And it was pretty obvious that some of the team were in poor condition seen by how they ended up being injured, particularly Dushmantha Chameera and Lahiru Kumara to mention a few and gone are the days when the team was a glamour outfit feared by opponents and today seem a bunch of stragglers sans the likes of Ranatunga, de Silva, Sangakkara, Jayawardena, Muralidaran, Dilshan, Vaas et al who brought virtual glory to the team with their glittering performances.<\/p>\n

Watching the present Sri Lankan team play at the Gabba it was pathetic and a clear case of “lambs to the slaughter” by an Australian team which had been humbled by the mighty Indians just recently but their fiery quick bowling attack and the spinners who simply ran circles round the Lankans who were well and truly humiliated.<\/p>\n

While It may be partly true that coach Hathurusighe is ” paid much more than he deserves and perhaps has become complacent” in the eyes of the pundits it is also true that the response he got from Bangladesh was very different as the players applied themselves and performed equitably to the task.The Sri Lankans seem to be incapable of this for whatever reason and Hathurusinghe is simply not getting that response as the players flounder around and make mistakes leaving the devoted Sri Lankan fans aghast as there has never been such a debacle in recent times despite all the glorious uncertainties of the game where the only thing that seems certain here is the inevitable loss.<\/p>\n

Hathurusinghe is an individual who knows his cricket and has given of his best to his Motherland by way of cricket and probably more where what he accomplished with Bangladesh is also a remarkable personality in many ways and should be recognized as a commendable coach where the old adage about taking the horse to water but unable to make it drink seems applicable here and its the players who have only themselves to blame as the coaches whether batting, bowling or fielding can only do so much and somewhat helpless if player responses are apathetic and willy nilly as seems to be the case here.<\/p>\n

That he has been stripped of selection rights and has been blamed for Sri Lanka’s poor showing is an ignominy were the previous selection chairman was a joke by comparison as no one knows his players and their capabilities better than him. His selection rights should be restored and greater emphasis needs to be paid towards player conditioning, fitness and the capability to face upto skillful bowling rather than blaming the coach as what he did with Bangladesh must surely be in the offing for Sri Lanka too if they respond equitably to the task.<\/p>\n

It’s the players who win or lose a game where the role of the coach albeit pivotal and directional without need for incarceration if the responses are positive.<\/p>\n

Hopefully Hathurusinghe will sooner than later get the best out of a young Sri Lankan team where motivation perhaps is the key word.<\/p>\n

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Top spin by Suni 31st Jan 2019 Team fails so the coach is to blame? No Sir !! Not true at all. It’s the team that has failed in the face of its incapability to face\u00a0 real fast bowling and the lack of good captaincy.The loss of Angelo Mathews surely becomes a pivotal point here. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-sunil-kumar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85229","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=85229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}