Change of guard in SL. No more character barbs from the 2 of their modern greats. One of them is out injured and the other one is in wrong books of SLC. And to make matters worse, the chief selector now is the same lad, the bald marauder from Matara, whose career was destroyed by this 2 great men.
Angelo Matthews is the ODI and Test captain. Good to see a Pune Warriors player become a captain of his national side. IPL indeed rocks.
2 Pune Warriors players are now captains of their national teams, but none of them shall lead the IPL team. Hell, the team would even play the IPL 6, there is a doubt.
Dinesh Chandimal is now the T20 captain. Split captaincy.
Third country. Oh no 4th. No not again. 5th country to go for split captaincy.
Australia, England, Pakistan, South Africa and now Sri Lanka.
A lot of new faces have been named in SL team. A squad of 20 players for a series against Bangladesh. Hallelujah.
How many of those new kids shall start their careers with inflated averages and with false sense of prides. After all SL leaves all chances to its kids to make it big in making all sorts of records. But only against minnows.
This year, unless BCCI schedules something in July - August, the Lankans are playing only against BD and then Zimbabwe. 4-0 in offing and lot of records. Many triple hundreds, double hundreds, 10-fors, 5-fors are in waiting.
The first campaign, Matthews says, will be to improve rankings. SL have been 6th in Tests and 5th in ODIs. SL have been hopeless in Tests like India. In ODIs they are winning consistently in Australia than in SL. And they are # 1 in T20s.
The ageing players Samarweera and P Jayawardhena have been dropped. Probably end of the road for them. SL bring in new players, dump them a lot. Only few of them go on and become notable ones. Matthews and Chandimal have been few of them.
Let us see what the new regime of captains and Matara Marauder can do to revive SL Krikat.
