Sri Lankan Cricket Team – Profile
Profile for Sri Lankan team
Sri Lankan cricket team is a strong cricket team who can put up a fight to win 2011 cricket World Cup. The strength of Sri Lankan cricket team is their batting which is full of batsmen like Tilakratne Dilshan, Kumara Sangakkara and Mahela Jayewardene who are considered to be some of the greatest batsmen of the cricket history. The bowling department is led by a legend off spinner Muthaya Muralitharan who has taken highest wickets in the test cricket history and he has the support of current world’s second ranked bowler Nuwan Kulasekara. They have the vast experience of Sanath Jayasuriya and leadership of Kumara Sangakkara is very effective. They have the bowler like Ajantha Mendis who has recorded fastest 50 wickets in one day internationals.
In spite of having such a good talent, Sri Lanka has failed to achieve results in recent times because of inconsistency of their top players. In recent series against India, Sri Lanka managed to win only one twenty-20 match and single one day international match.
But, Sri Lanka has the record of reaching in the World Cup final of 2007 cricket World Cup and winning the 1996 World Cup behind them. Apart from this, they have the advantage of playing on the home surface in 2011 World Cup. Due to all this factors, they can throw challenges to any team and can win cricket World Cup 2011.
Pak vs. Sri Lanka: Loopholes persist in Pakistan squad
by admin on June 13, 2009
in 20Twenty Cricket, Players, Srilanka
Younus Khan’s 50 runs were unable to save the match for Pakistan against Sri Lanka as the regular fall of wickets and slow run rate left Pakistan in vein losing by 19 runs. One can easily say that those 19 runs were those 20 extra runs, which were offered as a souvenir by Pakistani bowlers to the Sri Lankans in first four overs of the match.
The vivacious batting by the openers (Jayasuria and Dilshan) set the tone of the match as they blew the opening bowling attack where within first three overs they crossed the 40 runs mark. Despite the good bowling by Saeed Ajmal, Umer Gul and Shahid Afridi, Pakistan was unable to contain Sri Lanka from scoring 150 runs. Though the score was quite achievable excellent bowling and fielding by Sri lankans thrashed Pakistani batting line up like nine pins where Pakistan lose the match by 19 runs. Dilshan was declared as Player of the Match for his 46 runs.
Srilankan squad for this match comprised of Sanath Jayasuriya, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara (wk, captain), Mahela Jayawardene, Jehan Mubarak, Chamara Silva, Angelo Mathews, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis, Lasith Malinga, and Muttiah Muralitharan. Pakistan team played with Salman Butt, Kamran Akmal (wk), Mohammad Aamir, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Sohail Tanvir, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umer Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Fawad Alam and captain Younus Khan.