By Brain Thomas
With Hasha Thillekerstne as head coach of the Sri Lankan Women’s team , and Chamari Athapathu as Captain, sad to state the women have been starved of any international cricket since the conclusion of T 20 World Cup in March this year.
The ICC has invested with 8 teams through their respective Cricket administrators, but Sri Lanka has not succeeded in arranging even a bilateral series for some time. India toured England and the Women enjoyed a 3 format series this Summer in England. India will go down under to play Australia come September.
The English team is also scheduled to play in the Aussie Summer, hence the women are at their game. South African Ladies will play West Indies end August , whistle lesser known Thailand have got an opportunity against Zimbabwe for a 2 series one day international, scheduled to get underway today. To reach excellence in any format, we need to park ourselves in the international stage , hence SLC , have their work cut out in Women’s Cricket.
The girls are keeping fit on their own , thats fair enough, because the Pandemic has no selection policies when it comes to infections. But we could have arranged tours on foreign soil , to give our new out look team the much needed exposure. Pramodya Wickramasinghe heads the selection panel, and he will have to eye ball 5 hopefuls in Piyumi Wathsala, Sachini Nisansala, Imesha Dulani , Kavya Kavindi and Vishmi Gunaratne. The English experts have stated to their mens outfit ” Come on England play Proper Cricket ” but the public in Sri Lanka are appealing to Sri Lanka Cricket , ” Come on SLC , we can do with better planning for our Ladies to Excell in our beloved game “
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