Sri Lanka’s batting may be shaky, their reviewing dodgy and the standard of their fielding changes from game to game. But in this tournament, there can be little question. Their bowling is the best on show. After five matches, no team has yet made 200 against them in the World Cup Qualifier.
“The variation we have is a major part of our team. Wanindu [Hasaranga], myself, Matheesha [Pathirana], and Dilshan [Madushanka] – it’s four guys who are doing different things,” Theekshana said after the game. When you have four players playing differently for the same team, it’s a benefit for us. That’s why we are doing really well with the bowling attack. If someone doesn’t do well, there are three other guys who can do well.”
A brief run through what those four guys do:
– Theekshana is a right-arm finger spinner who bowls wicket-to-wicket, is hard to hit off on length, and deals in mystery.
“Hasaranga and I have a very good partnership,” Theekshana said. “In T20s, some days he gets wickets and I tend to go for less than 24 runs. For us, it’s really good that we’re both doing well right now. He didn’t get any wickets today, but he did bowl really well. When he’s bowling really well at one end, we know we can always get wickets at the other end. It’s always about partnerships in cricket, whether it’s batting or bowling. He’s a champion bowler. He’s already got 20 wickets in this tournament. That’s really good for the team.”
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