Marvan Atapattu blames lack of confidence for Sri Lanka’s batting failures – Cricket News Update
Sri Lanka’s batting coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033
(UAE) on Friday, November 11, 2011.
According to Atapattu, “Our batting failure has nothing to do with technique or application. It all boils down to a bit of lack of confidence. You have to believe in yourself and play with confidence. Hopefully, it is just a one-off show and we are going
to put it right on Monday.”
The tourists’ batting coach further went onto say, “Every batsman must be free to play their own game and believe in their own game. His mind should be absolutely free when he is facing that all-important next ball. He should not be thinking about the 130
runs we made on Friday or the first or second innings of a match in Galle against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.”
Sri Lanka have been struggling to perform consistently since their loss against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup 2011.
Soon after the Mega Event, veteran batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 stepped down from the team’s leadership and decided to play as a senior member. The decision did not affect his performance at all, as he has been scoring runs with consistency in every format of
the game.
However, there is no support for Sangakkara from the other batters in the side. The most concerning thing for the team is that skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DPMD-Jayawardene-c1397 have been struggling to score runs in the Pakistan series.
Dilshan might be under some pressure after taking over as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Muralitharan-c1864 and pace ace Lasith
Malinga.
The latter is only available for limited-over cricket, but Dilshan is yet to win an ODI series as captain. He expected his side to deliver against Pakistan, but things have not turned out to be good for the Lankan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808, as the opposition has dominated them
until now.
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