Sanath Jayasuriya, the interim Sri Lanka males’s head coach, believes the Check group set to play three video games in opposition to England within the latter half of the summer time is a good alternative, citing the situations will swimsuit the guests. Sri Lanka begins their Check collection in opposition to England on August 21 at Outdated Trafford in Manchester. “The truth that we have now received a late-summer tour is nice, as a result of the wickets have been used rather a lot, and there is extra sunshine right now of yr. It is extra just like our situations than the early summer time excursions. I’ve made certain the gamers know it is an awesome alternative,” Jayasuriya instructed ESPNCricinfo.
With many gamers touring England for the primary time for the longer format, Jayasuriya said about making certain the Sri Lankan gamers are in the precise mindset earlier than the collection begins. “I need to make sure that there may be that starvation. Enjoying three Checks like this isn’t a chance you’re going to get simply once more.”
“So we have now to take it whereas we are able to. Scoring runs right here is difficult, as a result of even when the pitches are flat, the ball can nonetheless begin swinging, or seaming. We now have to know learn how to modify to that.”
In his six Checks in England, Jayasuriya scored 421 runs at a median of 42.1, along with his greatest knock being 213 coming on the Oval in 1998. With Sri Lanka having the providers of Dinesh Chandimal, Dimuth Karunaratne and Angelo Mathews, who have been members of the Check series-winning group in England in 2014, Jayasuriya needs different batters to be versatile of their batting method.
“We now have the personnel there, however we have to struggle laborious. If you happen to play six or seven batters, solely two or three will carry out for certain. In the event that they get a begin they should play large innings. They know they’ve that duty on difficult wickets.”
“Everybody ought to play their pure recreation, however when you get that begin, there are locations the place that you must break issues down a bit of, and both bat shortly, or decelerate for a bit. When the ball will get older, it will probably nonetheless seam right here, which is the distinctiveness of the Duke ball.”
Sri Lanka are positioned in fourth place on the World Check Championships standings, with some extent share of fifty% whereas England are in seventh place with 36.54%. Jayasuriya signed off by saying Sri Lanka have bowling plans to counter England’s aggressive type of batting.
“It is within the first ten overs that there would be the most strain I believe. If you happen to look traditionally, they’ve been attacking within the first ten overs and getting runs on the board shortly. We now have received some plans to counter that. And we all know that is how they’ll play.”
“We now have to bowl in the precise locations, and in the event that they hit the nice balls, that is okay. We have to establish the precise lengths given the situations. There will probably be instances when we have to cowl the areas of the sector the place they’re attacking, to chop down the boundaries.”
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