Sir Lankans with two wins under their belt and with immaculate form of their bowlers have a greatest chance to win the T20 cold cup 2014. Defeating South Africans which for many carried the treat of defeat to Sri Lankans in the preliminary round but the defect in the hand of the less fancy English cause a doubt of the sir lankan batting and the think thank strategies reflected in chandimal captaincy.
Before coming to the match against English the real concern
of the Sri Lankan team was the performance of their most experienced batters,
Mahela and Dilshan, They yet to show any promise as well as the body language
in filed does not sagest anything else. Kumar Sangakkara a man with the form of
his life sandwich between the two struggling players will be more than
additional pressure to the free flowing left hander. Mahela getting back to the
runs was a great relief but its not convincingly rich performance where even Mahela
could feed from that, for the matchers to come.
For the sake of world cup glory it is crucial Mahela and Dilshan to find
the middle of their bats in the next match.
Kusal took protease by surprise, there surly did not anticipate
belligerent style of batting by the left hander but surely they were
concentrating more towards the veteran aggressor Dilshan. But in the matches to
come kusal will target by bowlers with much more detail inspection. Many
bowlers will try to target his ribs even though he is a good hooker and puller
of the cricket bowl or there will start the proceeding with a spinner by not
giving kusal the pace to work with frustrating the inexperience sanath looker
like the oppertition will try to make inroad to the untested sir lankan middle
order. The importance of the Dilshan in the explosive mood take off pressure form
the inexperienced partner if he face with deadlock in the first few over’s.
Dilshan with his quick feet and innovative stork play can irritate any bowler
in any situation. Thereby giving that extra few balls to kusal that will make
the different in the final analysis because now the entire world knows if he gets
his eye in, there is no one more destructive than Kusal Perera. In the other
hand this might help dilshan to get back in form because it’s easy and sensible
striking the bowl hard to get back to the form, where as, Mahela is all about timing.
Chandimal , Angelo and Tissara not having had anything
significant in the middle with the bat not going to be good post for the
lankans. The match against England we could have starches the boundaries of our
middle and lower middle order by giving them few more balls.
It is unfortunate to witness the end of two T20 carries,
Mahela and Sanga two of the greatest cricketers of the modern era as well as
great humanitarians, there will leave this arena with unforgettable performance
and it will be the 2014 T20 WORLD CUP it self.