To become a great player takes hard work, commitment and experience. The current set of YOUNG SRI LANKAN PLAYERS don’t have these three factors at the moment and that is why you see the team performing inconsistently at the international level across all formats.
Sri Lanka is perhaps may be blessed with an abundance of talent but talent alone won’t make you a great player because it involves hard work, commitment and experience. The current set of young players don’t have these three factors at the moment and that is why you see Sri Lanka performing inconsistently at the international level across all formats.
To replace the likes of Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara won’t be easy and it won’t happen overnight. Sri Lanka has some exciting young players in their ranks but it is going to take time to fill the stalwarts’ shoes.
ON TOP OF THE LIST is the 22-year old right-hander Kusal Mendis who has already shown glimpses of becoming one of the future stars. In his brief career of 17 Tests he has already played two monumental knocks — of 176 that set the tempo for Sri Lanka’s 3-0 whitewash of Australia at home in 2016 and a career-best 194 against Bangladesh at Galle early this year. These two innings have stamped him as a big game player and many past greats like Aravinda de Silva and Sangakkara have compared him to Mahela Jayawardene. He is still in the learning process and there have been occasions when he has thrown away his wicket when well set for a big innings.
Also in the limelight are two young hard-hitting wicket-keeper batsmen, Kusal Perera and Niroshan Dickwella, all-rounder Dhananjaya de Silva and a southpaw, Danuskha Gunathilaka — all in their mid-20s.
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