Dilruwan Jayarathne
*PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY CONTENT IN THIS ARTICLE IS NOT CONNECTED WITH ME – DILRUWAN JAYARATHNE
By Revatha S. Silva Dasun Shanaka’s One-Day International (ODI) captaincy is hanging by a thread as his predecessor and current national Test skipper Dimuth Karunaratne is likely to be reappointed as Sri Lanka (SL) ODI Captain, leaving Shanaka only the Twenty20 International (T20I) Captain of[…]
Kamindu certainly deserves a spot after the prolific super league series but it is not time to look for a new and younger back up keeper than Chandi. This guy is just hanging around, not really putting any pressure on Dickwella, neither is he making any meaningful runs when he get a chance, just not seeing a future. I would have thought it’s time to get young keeper up and running, especially for white ball cricket where the rest of the world is going with top order or hard hitting batters and we are looking at Chandi and Dickwella.
Apologies the above comment was for a different read.
So we want to start the musical chairs with the captain again – hey why not just got a new coach too. This is what we do, just keeping swapping and changing hoping something come through. The question is go back to why did we go past Dimuth? It’s simple, the rest of world is coming at white ball cricket with taking advantage of the power play (Warner, Finch, Sharma, etc.) While Dimuth is probably the best opener in the world he is not a power player. So in short, even if this plan works, the best case scenario is Dimuth making some runs but SL losing the game. Just makes no sense but it’s so much like most things associated with our cricket – which is why we are struggling.