Who is this Sri Lankan opener

Richard Dwight

The question on the lips of many a cricket enthusiast has been, who is this miserable opening batsman that kept on failing in all the four matches played by Sri Lanka in the Champions Trophy matches in England.

He made failure an habit and, his exit was far more quicker than his entry to the wicket. All this did have a demoralizing effect on his partner, Dilshan, and the whole team as well - which begged the question as to why they kept on persisting with him for his aggregate 14 runs in all 4 matches.

That which was even worse, was that the world acclaimed stylish batsman sanga had to as one drop batsmen perform the role of opener.

Spoken by as the greatest batsman by many a foreigner he did belie the trust reposed in him and lived upto his reputation by having score of 68, 138 and yet others. Our youngsters need to play 6 to 8 international matches, not the T20 matches, in order to become acquainted with the environment and atmosphere of Test Cricket and even 50 over matches.

Let's leave the T20 matches to those who are interested in money bags and not cricket year. If we do go on like this cricket will lose its glamour here.