Home / Sports / Sri Lanka’s gifted bowling section pivotal to feat says Thisara Perera

Sri Lanka’s gifted bowling section pivotal to feat says Thisara Perera

Sri Lanka purebred their initial win of a World Cup opposite Afghanistan after confronting a large improved during a hands of New Zealand in their contest opener

Sri Lanka's gifted bowling section pivotal to feat says Thisara Perera

Sri Lanka were distant from ideal after nonetheless another batting fall opposite Afghanistan, though all-rounder Thisara Perera pronounced a group always had faith in their “experienced bowling unit” to lift off a win.

After being put into bat, Sri Lanka could usually conduct to put 201 on a scoreboard before Nuwan Pradeep (4/31) and Lasith Malinga (3/39) starred with a round to gold out Afghanistan for 152.

“We all believed in ourselves and we knew we have an gifted bowling unit, that is since we had 5 quick bowlers as we have that experience,” Perera pronounced after a victory. We had to take wickets differently we would have lost. So that’s since we had to hang to a simple skeleton and not do anything extra.”

Having crumbled to 136 all out opposite New Zealand 3 days ago, Sri Lanka done a clever start with a bat opposite Afghanistan as Kusal Perera done 78. But they faced nonetheless another batting disaster, collapsing from 144/1 to 201 all out in 36.5 overs in a thespian spin of events in a initial innings.

“As a batting section we are unhappy since we got a good start and after that we folded and mislaid 5 wickets roughly back-to-back before a sleet delay,” Perera said.

“We know we have some issues as a batting section and we consider we have to try and urge going forward. Hopefully, this win will give us certainty for rest of a tournament.”

Captain Dimuth Karunaratne also struck 30 and Lahiru Thirimanne 25 though Sri Lanka mislaid 7 wickets for 36 runs in a space of 11 overs before sleet stopped play. They mislaid their remaining dual wickets on a resumption of play, withdrawal Afghanistan with a aim of 187 underneath DSL.

Relieved with a win, Karunaratne certified that a batting dialect needs improvement. “We had a good start after a prolonged time though suddenly, we mislaid a integrate of wickets and were on a behind foot. That’s a disastrous partial though otherwise, a bowling and fielding was unequivocally good. After losing a initial game, it’s not easy to keep your mind positive,” Karunaratne said.

“We have a knowledge in these conditions and that helped. The usually thing we need to work on is to urge a batting in a center overs.” Reflecting on a victory, Sri Lanka manager Chandika Hathurusingha pronounced a win will enthuse certainty in players to perform better.

“This gives us a lot of certainty since we unequivocally indispensable a win. We haven’t had most success lately. I’m certain we will see a improved team, a improved proceed from a group after this win. We need this win badly,” he said.

“It’s really tough to explain. We were in a really good position during one stage. we consider a wicket is such, it’s really formidable to start we think. When a batsman is in it looked an easy wicket to bat on, though we remove one wicket and afterwards we remove 3 wickets in one over.

“There were a lot of indeterminate shots, that was a means of some of a dismissals. We’re lacking in certainty since of what happened lately. We authorised them to come into a game,” he said.

Catch adult on all a latest sports news and updates here. Also download a new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get latest updates

Edited by mid-day online table with inputs from PTI