Angelo Mathews removed, Chandimal appointed as captain

[Mal Baba]

පට්ටම චා සිද්ධිය ඕයි

අපේ ක්‍රිකට් වලට මොකද වෙන්නේ

 

[saturn]

3ටම එක කැප්ටන් කෙනෙක් දාන එක හොදයි . කැප්ටන්ගේ කැපවීම හා වගකීම වැඩි වෙනවා . ඒවගේම ටීම් එකේ කල්ලි ගැසීම අඩු වෙනවා

 

[thilan996]

kohomath chandimal ne captain htye.uwa ban krou nisada koheda ne mathews aye captain une... retire nm pissu kelinna epa.captain nohitiyath team eke number 5 inna ona ekek

 

[dilshan87]

Danwath match ekak gahaddi dinnanna one kiyana will power eka thiyena ekek damma eka hodai. Habai ithin player kenek widihata Chandimal genuth loku deyak nam balaporoththu wenne ba.


Mathews ta wada nam pol piththak dammath hondai.

 

[play_boy]

 

[WhyNot1]

අස්වයා ගියාට පස්සේ ඉස්තාලය වැසීමක්. ඇයි යකෝ මුන්ට මේ ප්‍රේක්ෂකයෝ වෙන අපිට පෙනුන දේ කලින් පෙනුනෙ නැත්තේ.

 

[Richard Hammond]

Sack captain, sack coach but don't talk about real changes


Right. Okay. This is pathetic, isn't it? Knocked out of the Asia Cup basically before it has even begun. A big 91-run loss to Afghanistan, following an even bigger 137-run pasting by Bangladesh. Appalling. Someone needs to be held accountable for this garbage. How far Sri Lankan cricket has fallen. This is beyond embarrassing. Contracts must be torn up. Changes must be made. Heads surely have to roll.

And what better starting point than this Angelo Mathews? When have Sri Lanka ever done well when he was captain? Okay, so there were great bilateral series wins in England across formats in 2014. Also that historic Test series whitewash over Australia at home. And fine, there was an Asia Cup victory under him also. But, let's see, apart from additional ODI series against South Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, West Indies and Ireland, what has Mathews ever achieved as a leader?

Well, what do you mean Sri Lanka have already tried other one-day captains, and it went disastrously? You're saying that within a space of 12 months, Upul Tharanga, Lasith Malinga, Chamara Kapugedara and Thisara Perera all took the reins in limited-overs cricket, and Sri Lanka were still consistently and emphatically thrashed on a selection of the planet's continents? That Sri Lanka's returns in the series Mathews didn't captain in last year, were 18 losses and two wins?

Okay, fine. For the sake of argument, let's leave Mathews aside then. What about coach Chandika Hathurusingha? He who descended back on the island at the start of the year, charging more than any coach ever has before, promising lasting change and a return to former glory. Of course he should be packed off, right? Surely a coach should know when his players are going out of form, and when he should switch them out for someone else? Just look at what has happened to Kusal Mendis' one-day form - he's gone 20 completed innings without a half-century now. Tharanga, Dhananjaya de Silva, Shehan Jayasuriya… these guys aren't doing much better.


Angelo Mathews and Chandika Hathurusingha in discussion AFP
But I suppose you will make the point that Sri Lanka have already tried changing their coaches? Yes, of course I recall that last year Graham Ford was elbowed unceremoniously out of his job. And that after very few high-quality candidates applied for the job, the board practically had to go to Hathurusingha on their knees. Right, yes, there is also that insane statistic that Hathurusingha is Sri Lanka's tenth head coach - including interim appointments - in the space of eight years. I guess the Asia Cup was also only his third ODI assignment, and that when Sri Lanka had actually won their first ODI trophy since 2016 earlier this year, it had been under Hathurusingha's watch.

So, great, but if we are reserving judgement on him, what about these useless selectors? Wasn't it Einstein who said that the definition of insanity was to keep persevering with too many bits-and-pieces allrounders and not enough capable specialists? Now, this is getting annoying. You are saying that even the selectors have been changed within the last 13 months, and that they have tried a new selection philosophy, based on giving players a long run in the side rather than changing personnel every game.

Right, look. I see where you are going with this. You are going to sound like a broken record in a minute. You are going to say something like: "Sure, Mathews and Hathurusingha have their flaws, but Sri Lanka will always be inconsistent as long as their domestic cricket is in such rotten shape." You are going to drone on about how there is no point blaming the bakers, if you are giving them sawdust to make the cake.

You will claim the clubs have the cricket administration by the gonads, and that Sri Lanka's domestic players play months and months of meaningless low-quality club cricket. That what Sri Lanka are reaping now is the result of years and years of profound mismanagement. That even though they have recently started playing these "Super Provincial" tournaments, they are still grossly insufficient - that playing six decent domestic one-dayers in a year is nowhere near enough to start closing the gap on the better one-day teams. And that when players are suddenly asked to make the galactic leap into international cricket, they have repeatedly shown a tendency to make bad on-field decisions, and then quickly get caught up in a vortex inadequacy, which translates into more bad decisions, and acute dips in form.

So just save it, no? We've all heard it before. You have been going on for years, and yet has there ever been any real political will to change Sri Lanka cricket? Any meaningful effort to take the game properly into the provinces? All there has always been is pettiness, politicking, and shameless slinging of mud; the same eight or so names that have run cricket since 1996, throwing punches at each other in a broken down carousel.

What point is there crying out for the actual lasting change?

So instead let's argue again about sacking the captain and the coach.​

respect

 

[Richard Hammond]

දැන් බලං ඉදහල්ලා චන්දිමාල් ඇවිත් 2019 World Cup එක උඹලට ගෙනත් දෙයි. අර අවුරුදු 70 තිස්සෙ රටට වෙච්ච දේම තමා.... අරූ හොදනෑ මූ හොදයි මූට දෙමු ඊට පස්සෙ මූ හොද නෑ තව එකෙකුට දෙමු ඔහොම ඔහොම යමු ඉතින්. වැඩි කල් නොගිහින් චන්දිමාල් ට හොදවයින් ඒව කියන්නෙත් ඉතින් උඹලම තමා. ඔන්න කිව්ව කියල මතක තියා ගනිනන්. මැතිවුස් මැණිකෙ වගේම නිලංග ප*යත් නියුක් කරල දාන් ඕනේ

 

[LazyLizard]

දැන් බලං ඉදහල්ලා චන්දිමාල් ඇවිත් 2019 World Cup එක උඹලට ගෙනත් දෙයි. අර අවුරුදු 70 තිස්සෙ රටට වෙච්ච දේම තමා.... අරූ හොදනෑ මූ හොදයි මූට දෙමු ඊට පස්සෙ මූ හොද නෑ තව එකෙකුට දෙමු ඔහොම ඔහොම යමු ඉතින්. වැඩි කල් නොගිහින් චන්දිමාල් ට හොදවයින් ඒව කියන්නෙත් ඉතින් උඹලම තමා. ඔන්න කිව්ව කියල මතක තියා ගනිනන්. මැතිවුස් මැණිකෙ වගේම නිලංග ප*යත් නියුක් කරල දාන් ඕනේ

චන්දිමාල්ට ඉස්සර කොච්චර බැන්නද ලෑල්ල දාගෙන ඉන්නවා ගහන්නේ නෑ බින්දුමාල් කිය කිය.

 

[Richard Hammond]

චන්දිමාල්ට ඉස්සර කොච්චර බැන්නද ලෑල්ල දාගෙන ඉන්නවා ගහන්නේ නෑ බින්දුමාල් කිය කිය.

කතා කරල වැඩැක් නෑ බන් සින්හලුන්ට දේවල් මතක සතියයි නෙ

 

[pavanruka]

kohomath chandimal ne captain htye.uwa ban krou nisada koheda ne mathews aye captain une... retire nm pissu kelinna epa.captain nohitiyath team eke number 5 inna ona ekek

He's the best No 5 bat we've ever had. The failures are the result of team form. Most of the jerks don't understand this. They go by the photo that's put by the gossip sites.

 

[justinshady]

What's the role of Mathews in the team recently, a batsman or a bowler??

A fielder

 

[Identity]

Angelo kiyana kathawa hari

 

[rolecoaster]

hapo ethi yanthannn

 

[JVG]

kohomath thawa aurudu 3 k wath gihin aluth eun tikak enakal SL cricket walata goda emak ne.

 

[Los pollos hermanos]

ගංගා මෑනි පිහිටයි

 

[War Fighter]

හිසේ රුදාවට කොට්ට මාරු කරනවා වගෙයි.

 

[Absolute Zero]

Nikn katha ahanawa ta wada Dan captain kaminuth ayin wechcha eke Angelo Matthews retire wela yana ekama tamayi Hoda. Cricket kiyanne ekek sellam karana game ekak neveyi ne.ekek hodata sellam karata wadak wenne na anik un tika catch miss kara kara hodata sellam Kare nathnm.aluth coach kenek genawa hathuru kiyala uuth anthimata mithu ru wela nawathune. Team eka hariyata sellam nokara captain la kochchara maru karath ochchara ma tamayi.match paradunata moko salary hambenawa neh, eken jolly karala inna tyenne..goda yamak natha hamadaama othanama tamayi.

 

[kolavari]

Thisara Perera Also Retire Please




Shehan Jayasuriya Also

Thisara can do something more u hodai welawakata...consistence nathi ekai awula..

Shehan jayasuriya wage un nam kapala danna one..waste of resources

 

[kolavari]

Mathews retire wena eka utath hodai, cricket walatath hodai fitness nathuwa sellam karanna ba..

U fitness gana hithanne nathuwa ohe gahala dan kalinma naaki wela..dhoni wage wenna thibba porak...

Aparade..karanna deyak na ithin...