Sri Lankan Cricket in terrible condition after 3 yrs.

[saneindian]

Dilshan as the captain was the worst mistake they made. The way he shouts, growls and stares at his fielders and bowlers is pathetic. Should either persuade Mahela/Sanga to take over or make Mathews the captain in both the formats. Another huge problem is none of their young batsmen have grabbed their chances. Chamara Silva, Kapugedera, Kandambi have all come and gone. Similarly post Murali's retirement, they have tried too many spinners. Randiv was shaping up well but seems to have been out of favour. And to top it all, they are up against a very skillful Pakistani bowling line up on sluggish pitches which aide spin.

[daryl1985]

Dilshan as the captain was the worst mistake they made. The way he shouts, growls and stares at his fielders and bowlers is pathetic. Should either persuade Mahela/Sanga to take over or make Mathews the captain in both the formats. Another huge problem is none of their young batsmen have grabbed their chances. Chamara Silva, Kapugedera, Kandambi have all come and gone. Similarly post Murali's retirement, they have tried too many spinners. Randiv was shaping up well but seems to have been out of favour. And to top it all, they are up against a very skillful Pakistani bowling line up on sluggish pitches which aide spin.

Agree, thought he would become a superb off-spin bowler when i 1st saw him.

[Trichromatic]

Murali's retirement is the main reason. He could apply pressure in the middle overs which the other spinners arent able to do. Looks like sidhoni's prediction came true three years earlier :cantstop:

Sri Lanka looked good only because of Murli and Vaas, otherwise their team never did well without him and same thing is happening now. Team was way too much dependent on one man.

[Sidhoni]

Looks like sidhoni's prediction came true three years earlier :cantstop:

:bow:

[Ultimate_Game]

Dilshan as the captain was the worst mistake they made. The way he shouts, growls and stares at his fielders and bowlers is pathetic. Should either persuade Mahela/Sanga to take over or make Mathews the captain in both the formats. Another huge problem is none of their young batsmen have grabbed their chances. Chamara Silva, Kapugedera, Kandambi have all come and gone. Similarly post Murali's retirement, they have tried too many spinners. Randiv was shaping up well but seems to have been out of favour. And to top it all, they are up against a very skillful Pakistani bowling line up on sluggish pitches which aide spin.

Wouldn't have mattered no matter whoever they had made the captain. Sangakkara was smart and knew what would happen once Murali retired and SL really had nobody else to turn to.

[Sidhoni]

Tour results against Pak Lost the tests 0-1 Lost the ODI's 1-4 Lost the T20 0-1 :hahaha:SL:hehe:

[carnish]

Tour results against Pak Lost the tests 0-1 Lost the ODI's 1-4 Lost the T20 0-1 :hahaha:SL:hehe:

Not only that they even lost against Aus at home and before that against Eng in Eng and they lost in all the formats... its like they have lost the last 9 series that they have played in consecutively... its a record thats even poor than bangladesh and zimboks..

[Ultimate_Game]

Not only that they even lost against Aus at home and before that against Eng in Eng and they lost in all the formats... its like they have lost the last 9 series that they have played in consecutively... its a record thats even poor than bangladesh and zimboks..

And it all started at Wankhede on April 2, 2011 where Sangakkara tried to cheat his way to a WC win... I guess karma is a b***h :haha:

[Sidhoni]

Will be touring SA , which will be really very tough for them, expect a whitewash.

[bulbul]

Occupy Lords http://cricketwithballs.com/ one of the excerpt from article

The Sri Lankan Cricket Board lost 20 million dollars after the world cup. So they had an audit. Then they lost the disk with the audit on it. There seems to have been no back up.

is this real??

[Stuge]

don't know but source is very real :wink2:

[Sidhoni]

Nearing innings defeat against SA in the first test

[carnish]

Nearing innings defeat against SA in the first test

LOST BY AN INNINGS AND 81 RUNS

[saneindian]

A 3-0 thrashing coming up. In a way serves them right, especially after the moron Sanga mocked our no 1 rank last year. How things have changed in the last 18 months.

[Hell Raiser]

Sri Lanka's objective will be not to lose by an innings in any of the remaining matches. that's the best they can do, forget about even a draw.

[ganeshran]

They have been on a downhill ever since the WC final.

[Manny_Pacquiao]

Sri Lanka's objective will be not to lose by an innings in any of the remaining matches. that's the best they can do' date=' forget about even a draw.[/quote'] when was the last time they even won a test match? a truly pathetic team. take away the chucker, and they can't even beat teams at home. even pakistan are better than them now.

[Stuge]

Right now they are looking like upgraded Bangladesh .

[Dravid_TheWall]

If I selector I would sack Dilshan as captain and drop him down the order. Get a proper orthodox test opener to parter that Paravit guy and find new seamers. Only Dilhara is decentish. Maybe get Dammika Prasad back in.

[G_B_]

Dilshan as the captain was the worst mistake they made. The way he shouts, growls and stares at his fielders and bowlers is pathetic. Should either persuade Mahela/Sanga to take over or make Mathews the captain in both the formats. Another huge problem is none of their young batsmen have grabbed their chances. Chamara Silva, Kapugedera, Kandambi have all come and gone. Similarly post Murali's retirement, they have tried too many spinners. Randiv was shaping up well but seems to have been out of favour. And to top it all, they are up against a very skillful Pakistani bowling line up on sluggish pitches which aide spin.

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