Tour after tour of losses particularly in the white ball cricket takes Sri Lanka closer into a 2026 new year of cricket on an old cold note of white ball cricket on a long running stagnant back to square one empty drawing board of failures certainlyh leaving the country’s coaching expertise and think tanks with unfinished business of serious remedial action if Sri Lanka is to seriously muscle itself back to the desired giant shoulder to shoulder winning status in big show world cricket.
BIG CUP FAI LURES
Sri Lanka’s pointed big show failures at world cups with two disastrous performances at the last two T20 World Cups as well as the last ODI World Cup undermined by the glaring failure of automatic qualification where minnows Afghanistan did so exposing the dent in the two Lankan team in an ultimate bundling out in next to no time of the mega tournament must be viewed by the Lankan cricket hierarchy as nothing but an urgent eye opener to fix it in a move on of getting the right winning combinations while getting rid of the redundant parasites whose continued bad performances with the bat has exceeded the limit becoming the giddy limit of a ‘perform or get out’ intolerable point of no return if the right players are not singled out, put through the rough mill of maximising performance ingrained with that patriotic feeling that they owe it to to their country to come good.
Expertise and think tanks thus become key players to fixing it to shedding the defeatist ghost in quest of the eluding pots of gold. Indeed, it becomes a primarily major concern handpicked professionals tasked with the job of delivering for huge pay packets cannot be absolved from to themselves being very much a faulty component to this Sri Lankan cricketing debilitation.
On that high time to deliver note as the approaching 2026, all about new goodies must thus serve as a kick up the pants to get going and Sri Lanka prepares for its first home tour versus Pakistan which ground us to the dust in the fading year’s final fling back in Rawalpindi, marred by a frightening a suicide attack not far from the playing venue that rekindled the acrid gun smoke year of 2008 when the then Sri Lankan cricketers were targeted by Pakistani militants, this year’s players shaken by it all relenting to return back home, finally fell in line to the SLCs ultimatum to play or face the consequences with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake himself butting in and urging them to play on guaranteeing them absolute safety protection, though flying missiles carry no life safety guarantees, the new year must serve as nothing a turning point for a much needed new fruitful chapter for Sri Lankan cricket to wearing the cap of the marshalled to challenging the best to becoming world winning.
SHANAKA BLIND SIDE SELECTOR MOVE
While that sour part of the gloomy Pakistan tour was played out with an out of form injury stricken skipper Charith Asalanka injury crying off before the first leg T20 series was over leading to the national selectors resorting to a blind leading the blind recalling of sacked former captain Dasun Shanaka, now aged 38 to once again lead the side which was a stark example of unpreparedness of grooming captains which by itself is a drawback minus factor of shaping potential young performers like Kamindu Mendis or Pathum Nissanka, failure has continued to destruct the pathway to Sri Lanka becoming a giant shoulder to shoulder force in world cricket. Use
A time and time again failure primarily by the batting department that has been the biggest let down has by and large been to be a clear lack of commitment in lacking the key consistent fire power to be a winning team.
Contrastingly, India and Australia and even the Indian women’s players have been a shining example of last ditch tooth and nail fighters to the last.
Whether the Lankans seriously pack that country patriotic feeling looks highly questionable judging by the way they take their cricket for granted.