Lankans need system review: Sangakkara
Stalwart Kumar Sangakkara wants an urgent review of Sri Lanka’s cricket system, warning natural talent won’t take the nation far enough.
As the Sri Lankans prepared for Tuesday’s one-day international against India in Adelaide, Sangakkara said shortcomings in their cricket structure needed attention.
“It’s very important to have great first-class structure, I think in Sri Lanka that is something to address very strongly,” he told reporters in Adelaide on Monday
“That is one reason why Australia has been so good over the years, and I think that is an example that you can’t dismiss.
“I think it’s a case of where you really need to sit down and assess your first-class system and not just copy something, but take the lessons from it and adapt it to something that works really for you.
“In Sri Lanka we need to do that very quickly.”
Sri Lankan’s cricket landscape has long been overtly political, with Sangakkara among six one-day captains in the past decade.
The leadership returned to Mahela Jayawardene for the current tour following the resignation of Tillakaratne Dilshan.
“The way the players think and the way the people who make decisions sometimes don’t add up,” Sangakkara said.
“But that is the way cricket has always been. Dilshan unfortunately decided to resign and then we have gone back to Mahela, which at this time is probably a very good decision.
We need grounding and a tighter structure as to how we’re going to progress over the next three years.
And once you have that set, I think it’s going to be easier for anyone else like Angelo Mathews, who will probably take over,” he said
Mathews, the current vice-captain, nearly lifted Sri Lanka to victory over Australia in Perth last Friday night with 64 from 76 balls.
But Sri Lanka ultimately fell five runs short to remains winless from two outings in the tournament.
“You have got to win a minimum of four games really to have any chance of qualifying for the finals,” Sangakkara said.
“So we had better start winning soon … we should have been one-up by now and it’s unfortunate that we aren’t.”
Source: AAP
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Player Kumar Sangakkara if he difficults to play sri lanka national team then he should resign and give some new players too chance,there many new players are waiting for opportunities.Good players never talk shits like him.
Had Sangakkara and Mahela played more carefully and better we could have beaten Australia at the last match. We do have to go back to the drawing-board again to re-build a younger and able team. But the most crucial factor is, STOP POLITICAL INTERFERENCE! The last world cup would have been ours, if not for this political interference from the very top to let India win. Perhaps there was a big pay-off for the top politician who arranged this. Australia, England, South Africa have no such problem. Our cricketing heroes have not even been paid for months!. ICI should step-in and stop this rot. There is no one else who could do this. Above all sack the idiotic Sports Minister!
ND,
In hindsight you can talk whatever bullshit you want. What do you mean by “playing more carefully”? How do you do that? It is a limited over game and the batsmen have to score runs and not”thattu” to pass the time. What really matters is how they perform on the filed on the day. You talk of political inteference. From whom? Is it not from the MR goons, your mates.
at the moment the lankans find it difficult to post 200 to 250 runs…u can go back home and start rebuilding the structure….it is our present frontline batting which has to be corrected at the moment..with yourself mahela dilshan…
Agree with you 100% Sangakara, during our day’s the first class had prime important and also our players had the opportunity in play Ranji and Duleep Trophy.Unless we review our first class system SLC will get drained off with players.
We have the potential and they lack the finish which would come only through competition only.
On the other end it is sad all are interested in 20 overs and IPL, SLPL
It is time the SLC settle the crickets of the fees..
Well Said Sanga ….and best wishes to Mahela and his team mates for a successful tour