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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mag123" data-source="post: 17791635" data-attributes="member: 73975">see what  "Andrew Fidel Fernando" say about Sri Lankan Cricket at the moment ,, <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" />------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If it is true that you learn more in defeat than in victory, Sri Lanka  must have now earned a doctorate in how not to win matches, in their  time in New Zealand. The fielders have majored in shelling important  catches. The bowlers have refined the science of making top-order  breakthroughs, then allowing the lower-middle order to blow them away.  And the batsmen have become adept at tumbling in a heap after  Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara have  played good innings. There was real hope that Sri Lanka's long-term middle-order malaise had  been cured ahead of this World Cup, but so far in the series, the  batting there has been as queasy as ever. None of Jeevan Mendis, Thisara  Perera and Lahiru Thirimanne have had the stomach for a real fight.  Angelo Mathews' dip in productivity has made their failures starker.Sri Lanka's opening woes seem a trifle in comparison to the muddle in  the middle, but when Thirimanne went up the order on Friday, he became  Dilshan's sixth opening partner since mid-October. Thirimanne at least  seems more suited to the role than several of his predecessors, having  played genuinely match-winning innings from the top order in the past.  But his promotion spawns a spate of new questions further down the order  - the most obvious being: what to do with Dimuth Karunaratne, who is in  the World Cup squad?  <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/yes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yes:" title="Yes    :yes:" data-shortname=":yes:" /></blockquote>

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