We may be down… but not out

There’s no hiding the fact that Sri Lanka Cricket is on the downward curve since becoming the runners up of the world cup 2011. 4 Test series, 4 ODI series, 3 tours have gone by without ever getting to touch silverware. The closest we got were in South Africa where one more win could have made the script to be written in a different language but, all these are history. Now we can talk about how badly we played in those matches, how badly we lost a test match in a session against England, how poor our batsmen were against spin in UAE, how badly they coped with the bounce at Paarl, how ineffective our Test attack against South Africa erratic our fielding were most of the time but, let’s not.

           Let’s talk about how our players managed their own game because they had no excuses all along. They never complained about the pitches like our neighbors did, They didn’t call for turning pitches at home like our neighbors did, they didn’t say we beat them at home too like our neighbors did and they didn’t even say a word about their payments. Yes they have lost, all teams do but, they accepted responsibility for the failures and stayed professional throughout and that deserves a pat on the back.

                                        Here comes the opportunity for them to make the last 8 months vanish in to the history. Australia is almost unbeatable at home (although we did last time) and how bad their recent record may be, India are the world champions. So this won’t be plain sailing by any stretch of the imagination but anyone who write Sri Lanka off from the upcoming CB series, can do it at their own peril because Sri Lankan Cricket is far from being bowled.

-NDM