Lawrence Booth writes his two cents on successors to Australia as he presumes the team would loose its aura after Nagpur Test….And he comes up with a hilarious suggestion – Sri Lanka as successors to the Australia…
Which leaves us with perhaps the most credible alternative: Sri Lanka. Their nucleus of top players may be small, but it is unrivalled in its quality: Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene score most of their runs; Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis take most of their wickets. So what a shame it is that Sri Lanka’s next scheduled Test match was May in England, a tour that will almost certainly not now take place…
A team which rarely wins outside SL and rarely plays quality Test sides, a team who has most batting records against its name playing with minnows of game is worthy successor to world champions…It can’t get more cynical than this……A team which has never won in Australia and India, has never won a series outside Sri Lanka against a major Test opposition cannot be worthy successor to Australia and more so than India who has now won in every country except NZ in the new millennium.
