Unsettled pace attack worries Sri Lanka ahead of Australia tour – Cricket News Update
The Sri Lankan skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DPMD-Jayawardene-c1397, feels that going to Australia without a settled pace attack will pose challenges for them in the upcoming Test series, scheduled to kick-off on December 14, 2012.
"It's important that we have a settled attack, but in the last two or three years we've had a lot of injuries to the fast bowlers so they've been in and out of the team. We would like to have a settled attack going forward. If we can get to that situation, they'll feel confident in what their roles are going to be as well playing together as a unit,” shared Jayawardene.
Scheduled to play 3 Tests before 5 ODIs and 2 T20s, the Lankan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 are going into the Test series with five bowlers. However, all five have less than 20 Tests under their belts, and lack the necessary experience to take on the Australian batsmen, who are expected to come hard at them following their recent series defeat against the Proteas.
Dhammika Prasad, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-George-Burrows-c93472our Down Under.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ranasinghe-Arachchige-Suranga-Lakmal-c83928, who hasn’t played a single Test match since March, was not named in the squad after an ankle injury, while Thisara Perera, the most successful Lankan bowler against Australia in ODIs, also failed to make it to the squad after suffering from a back injury.
Welegedara, the most experienced amongst the selected lot, has played 18 Tests and had been Sri Lanka's front-line bowler for over 18 months. He was however, ruled out of the Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 series due to lack of match practice.
“Chanaka's been fit now for three or four weeks. The reason we didn't play him was because he didn't have that bowling under his belt and the rhythm wasn't there,” revealed Jayawardene.
The Sri Lankan travel to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HMRKB-Herath-c1559.
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