Shane Warne blasts selectors for rotation policies:

Lankans not happy with Tharanga’s poor form

Fighting to get Chandimal on the Park in Brisbane:

Elmo Rodrigopulle reporting from Australia

The Sri Lankans arrived in Brisbane, confident that they can give continuity to the victory they achieved against Australia in Adelaide in the second Commonwealth Bank Series game.

Sri Lanka after surrendering the first game by 107 runs in a one-sided clash, rallied to dump the Australians convincingly by 8 wickets with Lahiru Thirimanne totting up his maiden one-day hundred. The Lankans who arrived in Brisbane on Tuesday evening immediately got down to the nets under the watchful eyes of head coach Graham Ford and were seen going through some strenuous drills associated with the game.

Players fit and well

All players are fit and well, with only Dinesh Chandimal who suffered a hamstring strain during his plucky innings in Melbourne moving around in a bit of discomfort.

The management is working hard in an endeavour to get him fit and on the park in this crucial third game. If he is declared fit he will certainly play in which case opening batsman Upul Tharanga will be benched.

Left hander Tharanga’s form has been wretched. In the first game he was out for one in Melbourne and for no score in Adelaide. He was out in similar fashion in both outings.

Unable to read bowling

His fault is that he is unable to read the pace, the bounce and the away movement and not being in line has snicked to the wicket keeper. A sound start is paramount in this style of game, when batting first or chasing a target.

If Chandimal is fit, he will certainly come in to the team and Tharanga will sit out. When the selectors on tour sit to pick the team for Brisbane, they will scrutiny the form before declaring the final eleven. Wicket keeper batsman Dinesh Chandimal was excellent with the bat and gloves, not only in the Third Test in Sydney where he scored a blistering half century, and gave continuity to that form in the First one day game in Melbourne.

Tough decision

If Chandimal is fit, the selectors will have a tough decision to make. To glove Chandimal or the promising Kushal Janith Perera will be their dilemma. The selectors know their job and they will make the right call. In the meantime former champion leg spinner, the controversial Shane Warne joined the growing number of former cricketers who are lashing out at the Australian Selection Committee for their rotation policy.

Former cricketers lashing out at former cricketer and head of selection committee John Inverarity and his team are – Bret Lee, Ian Chappell, and Michael Slater.

The latest to this exalted company is Shane Warne who is now captaining the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League.

Blasting Australia’s selection policies, Warne labelled them as ‘mind-boggling’ and ‘ridiculous’, and called on for players to take ownership and demand not to be rotated or rested.

Brisbane, Wednesday.