Sri Lanka fast bowlers Dushmantha Chameera, Asitha Fernando, and Dilshan Madushanka at practice at Lauderhill, venue of today’s game against Nepal By Sa’adi Thawfeeq As the fast bowling coach of the Sri Lanka team, former Pakistan fast bowler Aaqib Javed will be quite happy the way the Lankan quicks have gone about their business in the two matches played so far in Group D of the T20 World Cup. But the core of Sri Lanka’s problems lies not with the fast bowlers or with the rest of the bowling line up, but with their batting, which has failed to put enough runs on the board for the bowlers to capitalise and thereby resulted in two back to back defeats at the hands of South Africa and Bangladesh. The defeats have been a setback to Sri Lanka as they have only faint hopes of qualifying for the next stage of the World Cup which is the Super Eights.
Sri Lanka are currently without a win in their group and will look towards opening their account when they take on Nepal today at a venue they are familiar with Lauderhill in Florida where they played their two warm-up matches against the Netherlands and Ireland. Sri Lanka made scores of 161 and 163-8 in the two matches, but they will need to score more than that if they are to improve their net run rate and also win big against Nepal, a team they have not met in white ball cricket. Both teams are coming to this game without a single win behind them.
Aaqib said Sri Lanka’s best is enough to beat anyone at the tournament, though .
