I have stopped watching cricket - Arjuna Ranatunga

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/asia-cup-2018-i-have-stopped-watching-cricket-arjuna-ranatunga/story-FzkYAo3tchozIvSsgAl5JP.html

 

“Honestly, I have stopped watching cricket for some time because it hurts to see the team losing so badly,” Ranatunga said.

“It is the Sri Lankan coaches who went to Bangladesh and helped develop their grassroots cricket. Several of our coaches were working with Bangladesh’s age group teams and in the last 10 years they have made good progress. What we Sri Lankans did was hire foreign coaches to develop our cricket. Something went wrong somewhere,” Ranatunga, one-time president of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said.

“We have many good coaches but their services are not recognised and as a result they move overseas. I am also disappointed with the constant chopping and changing they have done in recent times. I was very impressed with Lahiru Thirimanne when I first saw him. He was making good progress but went through a bad patch. When you have identified a talent, you need to back that player without discarding him. That is what Imran Khan did and that is what I did.

“You take the case of Marvan Atapattu. He had such a terrible start managing just one run in his first six innings. Eventually, he went onto score 16 Test hundreds. That is because we backed him to the core, gave him confidence without abandoning him as we had identified his talent. Eventually, he ended up with more Test runs than me.

“It’s not still too late. We can come out from the current predicament if we focus, identify a core group of players and build the team,” Ranatunga added.

 

[rkt.india]

khane se fursat nahi milti hogi

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3 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

khane se fursat nahi milti hogi

I believe he is into politics and a minister over there.

[Vilander]

57 minutes ago, Switchblade said:

That is what Imran Khan did and that is what I did.

he thinks imran is some big piss and equates himself to him..lol

 

[Wall2018]

Samosas might have got over....

[mishra]

Attapattu dsilva vaas murali jayasurya ranatunga were the pillars of team. Which current Lankan player has similar quality to be backed?

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So Bangladesh having foreign coaches was good. SL having foreign coaches, bad.

OK

[Moochad]

I have doubled my eating- Arjuna Ranatunga

[nevada]

Atapattu conveniently happens to be Ranatunga's brother in law. Not sure if he was during the time when he had that horror run, though. 

 

 

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On 9/26/2018 at 2:21 PM, Vilander said:

he thinks imran is some big piss and equates himself to him..lol

 

Imran Khan, the cricketer is indeed rated/considered very highly among cricket lovers universally. His inspirational captaincy to lead Pakistan to WC 92 is stuff of legends. 

 

Ranatunga is basically saying that Imran and then himself brought out the best among the players by being good leaders and eventually achieved success. 

 

Whether we would like them or not, leading a team to World Cup glory is a RARE and HUGE (life lasting in a way) achievement by any cricketer. I would think all of them will die peacefully on their death beds thinking that they have achieved something in their life. 

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18 hours ago, mishra said:

Attapattu dsilva vaas murali jayasurya ranatunga were the pillars of team. Which current Lankan player has similar quality to be backed?

The closest thing they have anything to that is Matthew and Old man tubby Malinga. That's should speak volumes ...