The presence of Mahela Jayawardena as consaltant coach of Sri Lanka cricket at the world cup gives strength to the team said Sadeera Samarawickrama after the first world cup match against South Africa at Delhi on Saturday.
Mahela is a legend and we can get anything from him .His presence gives confidence to the team added Samarawickrama the top order right hander .We had discussed with Mahela before this match .He said more important to do basics at batting
We lost our first game but there are lot of positives at this South Africa game said Samarawickrama who made 23 in 19 balls with 3 fours and a six.
our bowlers gave away too many runs. They scored highest team total of 428 for 5 wickets and we had to chase that big target . Actually Delhi wicket is good and we decided to chase that target .Finally we lost by 102 runs. if we kept wickets earlier we could have won this game but we tried very hard said Sadeera Samarawickrama.
Skipper Dasun Shanaka came back to form to complete half century while Kusal Mendis made explosive knock to increase the total and as a team we are very happy to see both players perform well .Charith Asalanka also made useful knock to build up the innings and we were in a good position until last ten overs . Chasing such a big total we managed to bat very well against strong South Africa bowlers .
When we played in Sri Lanka we used to play on turining wicket .We never got big chase like this game and we never got this type of superb batting track ..We like to see this type of wicket in Sri Lanka.If we would get good batting wicket we wont crumble under pressure and hope to see good wickets in future.
Sri Lanka cricket team yesterday evening reached Hyderabad for second game against Pakistan which will be played tomorrow. They hope for a training session tomorrow morning at Rajiv Gandhi International cricket stadium.
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