Hasaranga Voices Concerns Over Poor Conditions In T20 World Cup

Sri Lanka captain Wanindu Hasaranga believes they’ve extensively discussed their repeated mistakes in big tournaments and now it’s time to shift their focus towards rectifying those mistakes, following the ignominy of another group league exit.

Hasaranga termed his team’s 83-run win against the Netherlands as something that came “too late” after losing their games against South Africa and Bangladesh in the group stage of the T20 World Cup. “As a captain, I feel very sorry about this but we have discussed our mistakes in this World Cup and from previous ODI World Cup as well. So as we have not rectified those we had to get out of this tournament this soon. “The leg-spinner felt that it was the batting that led the team down.

“When we think of the bowing battalion, we are on the top in this tournament as well. Unfortunately, I know our batting wasn’t good enough as we expected and that’s why we had to get out of this tournament this early,” the skipper put the blame squarely on batters.

Hasaranga, expressed his decision to avoid delving too deeply into the social media comments, despite the strong emotional reactions from Sri Lankan cricket fans.”As a player, we should not look at social media posts. What’s on social media is done by a small group of people to instigate other fans. True Sri Lanka fans are with us even if we lose the matches. We must be very lucky to have such kind of fans in Sri Lanka.”

While Sri Lanka arrived in the United States at least 10 days prior to the start of the tournament, Hasaranga felt that there was no similarity between training pitches and match decks. We had our first match in New York and it was not successful. And then we went to Dallas to the next match and we could not adjusted to the pitch there as well. I think as a team and as a captain, we take the full responsibility.” But Hasaranga doesn’t want to hide behind the below-par USA tracks and paper over the dismal performance of his own team.

Hasaranga stated that he can put the blame on pitches and make up stories when they lose a match. But as professional cricketers, they won’t do that. All the other countries are also playing in the same pitches so we have to adjust ourselves to that. We have to admit that. That’s why we come to these tournaments representing a country.

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