Sri Lanka cricketers praised for their resilience during COVID-19

Sri Lanka’s cricketers who are currently going through hard times without any international cricket fixtures for the past seven months – and heaven knows for how much longer due to the COVID-19 pandemic – came in for some high praise for the resilience they have displayed through this difficult period, from Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Chief Cricket Operations Officer Jerome Jayaratne, who also heads the High Performance Centre (HPC) at Khettarama.

Jayaratne, a former interim national team head coach, who has worked closely with the current crop of players, said that until the middle of last week the national team players had been training as a group at the High Performance Centre…