Sri Lanka cricket team out to maintain consistency - Moody

CRICKET: Sri Lankan coach Tom Moody stressed the importance of maintaining their consistency in both forms of the game after their successful tour of England which was concluded recently.

The former Australian test cap said that there is some very tough cricket ahead of them and the team need to stay focused on the game if they are to make an impact during the next World Cup which will be staged in the Caribbean.

Moody paid tribute to the Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardena and his team for a magnificent performance where they came from behind to draw the three test series one all and followed up with a historic five nil drubbing in the one day international series.

Moody said that the team has now done all the hard work and they just need to play their natural game and continue with the good work on the field. He said that the manner in which the team saved the first test was really outstanding and very few teams could produce a performance of that nature.

Moody said that they did make some experiments during the one day international series but he made it clear that skipper Mahela Jayawardena will bat in his usual position at number four in the forthcoming test series against South Africa.

Moody also said that all five one day matches were played on good batting tracks and that presently there seem to be a little impact on the English wickets which are similar to the ones here at home.

He added that the entire Sri Lankan batting line up is quite talented and are capable of facing the best of seam bowling which was an added advantage during the tour.

(C.D.)