Will Sri Lanka qualify for the 2019 Cricket World Cup?

[Lannister]

After the crushing defeat in the first ODI against Bangladesh in Dambulla, Sri Lankan fans will be nervous about their team's chances of qualifying for the 2019 World Cup.

The hosts of the next ODI World Cup England and the other seven top-ranked teams in the ODI rankings, by the cut-off date of September 30, 2017, will qualify.

The remaining four teams will feature in a World Cup qualifying tournament next year for another chance.

Before the start of the three-match series, Sri Lanka were ranked sixth (98 points), while Bangladesh were on 91 points and ranked seventh.

In the event that Bangladesh whitewash the hosts, they will join Sri Lanka on 96 points and be ranked sixth when the points are calculated beyond the decimal point.In the event that Bangladesh whitewash the hosts, they will join Sri Lanka on 96 points and be ranked sixth when the points are calculated beyond the decimal point.

If Bangladesh win 2-1 however, they will end with 93 points and Sri Lanka will lose a point (97), and if Sri Lanka win 2-1 they will move to 99 points and Bangladesh will remain on 91.

The rankings will be impacted by other series taking place — Pakistan and West Indies, who also are in danger of not making it, will play a three-match ODI series in April. The outcome of those matches too can dent Sri Lanka's chances of qualifying.

The possibility of Sri Lanka failing to qualify for the World Cup has not gone unnoticed in the local media, with The Island newspaper publishing the headline 'D-Day for Sri Lankan Cricket' this week as a preview to the ODI series against Bangladesh.

"Imagine the national cricket team being kicked out of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019," the editorial read. "That's quite impossible you would think for a nation that has won cricket's most prestigious event once and has reached the finals on two occasions."

With the 90-run thrashing at the hands of Bangladesh in Dambulla on Saturday, Sri Lanka have now lost six consecutive ODIs to add to their shocking defeat in the second and final Test match against the visitors earlier this month.

If they fail to arrest this slide and defeat Bangladesh in the remaining two ODIs, there is a strong possibility of not seeing Sri Lanka at the next World Cup.

© Island Cricket

 

[kepu]

Thanks to SL selectors and the Cricket Board

 

[Barry Allen]

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[Barry Allen]

ඒකත් අවුලක් නෑ එතකොට කලින්ම හිත හදාගන්න පුළුවන් ලෝක කුසලානේ නොබලා ඉන්න.පරදින හැටි බලනවට වඩා ඒක හොඳා. ​

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[EK_SheSH]

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[Prabasha]

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icc champions trophy eke south africa india Pakistan ne gahanna thiyenne point table eke kohe nathara weida danne na

 

[Fancy Enterprises]

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[Silly point]

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[san2d3]

Dannam IPL witarai.

 

[Election2015]

Ado Qualify une naththan Maru ban. Sumathi gedara yawanna puluwan. Mahela Board president kara nan hari.

 

[RottenCOLT]

 

[Fox C2]

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[Lannister]

Sri Lanka Cricket’s top brass including President Thilanga Sumathipala, Chairman of Selectors Sanath Jayasuriya, captain Rangana Herath, Coach Graham Ford and Cricket Manager Asanka Gurusinha will meet today to do a postmortem after the national cricket team’s shocking defeat in the second Test against Bangladesh at P. Sara Oval on Sunday.

Fears of Bangladesh turning the tables on Sri Lankans have been there for sometime given the excellent work Chandika Hathurusinghe had done with them.

But the Sri Lankans had things under control until the bizarre happenings of day four.

Captain Herath categorically denied claims that his side was cocky leading into the fateful fourth day’s play, but their attitude, where the batsmen from number six onwards were told to turn up at the ground only 30 minutes prior to start of play points at complacency.

The fact that the Sri Lankans were still behind by 75 runs should not have let them take the foot off the peddle. The team behaved as if they were ahead by 300 runs.

Not only are these players representing their country, but they are paid handsomely as well. Each player takes home a cool US$ 7500 (over Rs. 1.1 million) per Test match and that demands them to show professionalism rather than behaving like a bunch school kids asking for more rest in between a Test match.

Fielding woes have been part of the Sri Lankan team for well over four years now. It’s not a secret that Sri Lanka and Pakistan are the worst fielding units in the world. Drop catches cost the team dearly in the four wicket defeat.

"I don’t think we are one of the worst fielding sides. We dropped a few catches which is bad. Fielding will be one area we will focus a lot with coach Graham Ford," Gurusinha told at the post match media briefing.

Gurusinha, a man with a no-nonsense approach, was asked whether he would endorse a fining system for dropped catches.

"I don’t think a fining system is going to help. Working on little things is important. I am observing what we are doing well and what we are not doing well. It’s not the amount of time you do It’s the quality of training you do. We need to improve the intensity and not the time," Gurusinha added.

It is our firm belief that the national cricket team spends more time playing football during training while the time they allocate for fielding is much insignificant. Desperate times call for desperate measures and Gurusinha will earn much admiration if he puts an end to this nonsense of playing football during training.

The commitment our players show for playing football is such that an outsider would think that Jose Mourinho had arrived at the cricket ground on a recruitment job for Manchester United.

This team has little planning and that’s where Hathurusinghe scores big.

Sri Lanka’s fielding coach is Nic Pothas. During all five days of the Test match, not a single day anyone took the trouble to get the South African to do fielding drills.

Sumathipala needs to ask the team whether there was any plan ahead of the catastrophic day four on how to go about things during Sri Lanka’s second innings. The Sri Lankans had been warned of the ‘ides of March’ but they had failed to take note.

There’s something Sumathipala himself can do. That is to stop being arrogant and reintroduce the Provincial Cricket Tournament. The highly competitive tournament comprising just four teams raised the standards immensely when it was functioning. The SLC President is not keen to do anything that will upset his vote base, which is clubs. He knows that there’s no National List where cricket elections are concerned. He keeps bragging about Sri Lanka having won a World Cup playing the club tournament. The other side of the coin is that we lost to Bangladesh playing the same club tournament..

The attitude of the players need to change as well. Herath virtually was in tears soon after the defeat. However, some of the younger players didn’t take the loss too seriously.

Niroshan Dickwella during the second Test proved that Test cricket is not his cup of tea. In the first innings he was dismissed playing a reverse sweep. In the second innings, he perished playing a paddle sweep too early.

After the game, he attended the post match presentation and walked back towards the dressing room waving his hand at some of his admirers as if he had done the brightest thing in batting.

Chandika Hathurusinghe must be the happiest man on earth. In 2010, he was chased away from Sri Lanka Cricket by D.S. de Silva and Nishantha Ranatunga on flimsy grounds. Seven years later, he had his final say.

The Island

 

[Lannister]

Did anyone notice it ? They take home 1.1 million rupeees per a test match regardless of win or loose.

plus they take home salaries from SLC .

 

[hiphoprock]

ඒකත් අවුලක් නෑ එතකොට කලින්ම හිත හදාගන්න පුළුවන් ලෝක කුසලානේ නොබලා ඉන්න.පරදින හැටි බලනවට වඩා ඒක හොඳා. ​

එතකොට thread දාගෙන කතාකරන්න දේකුත් නෑනේ. චන්දිමල්ටයි කුසල් මෙන්ඩිස්ටයි උපුල් තරංගටයි අපේ අනෙක් උන්ටයි අපි tv එක දාගෙන match බලනවා වගේ ගෙදරට වෙලා බලන්න තියෙන්නේ. මේ k Mendisගෙයි Chandimalගෙයි අන්තිම match 5 වැඩ ටික.
K Mendis -20(22), 4(7), 29(34), 1(7), 4(17) Total-58(87) මුට ලකුණු 58 ගහන්න match 5ක් යනවා. S lakmalනුත් අන්තිම match 5ට ලකුණු 30ක් ගහල තියනවා.
D Chandimal - 5(14), 1(3), 22(55), 36(46), 4(14), 59(70) total-127(202) මුට ලකුණු 127 ගහන්න match 6ක් යනවා බෝල 200කට වඩා යනවා.
එක match එකක ගහන්න ඕනේ ලකුණු මුන් match 5කදි ගහල අතල් එකේ ඉන්නවා. අපි ඉතින් sensible cricket, තම පොඩියි තව ලොකු වුනහම ගහයි කිය කිය බලන් ඉන්නවා.