There are promising signs for the future, reckons http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Denagamage-Proboth-Mahela-de-Silva-Jayawardene-c53546 – Cricket News Update
Sri Lanka’s prolific middle-order batsman, Mahela Jayawardene, who occasionally opens the innings for the home side in the 50-over game, has expressed complete trust in the abilities of the upcoming young http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SO-Tikolo-c2546 in the national team.
In an interview, the batsman said, “There is plenty of room to improve but there are promising signs for the future.” The 34-year-old Jayawardene believes that the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Young-c98322 players are talented enough to give their opposition a run for their money, and if groomed
properly the players will snatch commendable feats for the national team in times to come.
Talking about the team’s recent loss in the five-match one-day series against hosts England, he insisted that the squad had performed quiet well during the whole tour and they could have won the fifth match of the NatWest series had they not lost quick wickets
in the early part of their innings. Nonetheless, he was disappointed for having lost the series 3-2.
Sharing his thoughts about the outcome of the fifth match, he said, “It's actually quite frustrating looking back on the tour and thinking how good it could have been. We lost the Test series because of one session in Cardiff and in the one-day series it
was down to a couple of batting collapses at crucial moments.”
He insisted that the tour exposed the weak spots within the team and now all efforts should be made to overcome the squad’s shortcomings.
Jayawardene commended the performance of youngsters Jeevan Mendis, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LD-Chandimal-c1831, who exhibited brilliance during the English tour.
Chandimal was the hero of the third One Day International (ODI), where he played a remarkable knock of 105 runs as he helped his side overcome a tally of 246 runs, posted by England for the tourists to chase at Lord’s.
After failing to score a run in the next game, he was again in splendid form in the fifth encounter, where he smacked 54 runs with the bat in a bid to take his side across the finish line; however, destiny did not favour the Lankans as the tourists fell
16 runs http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107.
On the other hand, while it was a testing series for the youngsters, the veterans http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 and Jayawardene performed tremendously well throughout the English summer as both the batsmen were extremely difficult to get rid off while they were on the
crease.
Jayawardene, in the interview, commended the performance of the former captain Sangakkara, who scored 48 runs in the game at Old Trafford and felt that the left-handed batsman batted with great zeal to take the side near the required tally in the one-day
series decider.
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