Absence of Tillakaratne Dilshan will be badly felt – Mahela Jayawardene
Former Sri Lankan captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TM-Dilshan-c2691 will be badly felt in the last match of the Test series at Rose Bowl, Southampton.
Dilshan has been ruled out of the third Test at Rose Bowl because of a hairline fracture on his thumb but he is likely to be back in the limited overs series later this month.
In his article at http://www.cricinfo.com/, Jayawardene said that Dilshan is the most important player for the Islanders at the moment and the team management did not want to take any chances with his fitness.
Jayawardene said, “It's a big loss, but we were never going to take any chances with our captain. The swelling on his thumb was pretty bad last week, although that has now gone down and his movement was pretty good in the nets the other day.”
Left handed top order batsman and former captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 will take over the role in Dilshan’s absence. The left hander wanted to concentrate on his batting as he is not having a great series till date but he accepted the offer in the best interest
of his team.
England is currently leading the three match series 1-0 and it is going to be a huge challenge for the visitors to level the series at the Rose Bowl, especially with the weak bowling attack that they have, which has struggled in the series against a strong
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 batting lineup.
However, Jayawardene is positive about the performance of his team’s bowlers in the previous Test and feels that they are improving.
“Our pace attack definitely looked more threatening than at Cardiff, with the left-armer Welegedara giving us a different option with the angle he created and his swing, and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CRD-Fernando-c1292 looking really good with his pace. It's something to build on because
we need attacking options to pick up 20 wickets,” he added.
Apart from captaincy, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 will miss the services of Dilshan as an opener because he has been in sublime form in the series and took the attack to the English bowlers.
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