Batting collapses ‘a little bit of a priority’ for Sri Lanka

Yes, okay, Sri Lanka’s batting is fairly poor by big-boy-ODI requirements. We have heard the arguments. The dot-ball percentages aren’t nice. The prime order will get out too early too usually. And 300-plus scores simply aren’t their factor towards good bowling.

Together, they’ve refused to permit an opposition to attain 200.

On Friday, it is like DJ Khaled says: Another One.

“The bowling has been good since the start of the tournament,” Nawaz mentioned. “When things went bad at the top end, we were planning how we can get to 240 or 250 and back our bowling to defend it. Looking at the start from where we were, 213 is a good score. We would always back our bowling to defend it.”

Would he all the time? I assume now we have to take his phrase for it. In the final two matches, and maybe on the whole over the previous couple of years, the bowlers have bailed the batting out.

Nawaz thinks it’d occur extra usually on this match from now, particularly in Bulawayo.

“The square looks a bit tired now as well, and wickets are going to get slower,” he mentioned. “The side that adapts well to the conditions and holds their nerve will have a better chance of coming out well at the end.”

But Sri Lanka are usually not past admitting there are issues. In the final match they have been dismissed for 245 towards Scotland. Even although the surfaces have been sluggish, neither appeared like an imposing whole.

“It’s a bit of a concern that twice in a few days our batting has collapsed,” Nawaz mentioned. “Once [we collapsed] at the top, and once in the middle. We’ll have to regroup. We’ll have to sit down, talk about it and see how we’re going to come back in the next game.”

Sri Lanka’s spinners have ceaselessly been lead actors within the bailout crew. In this match, Hasaranga is by a distance the best wicket-taker to date, with 20 dismissals to his identify at a mean of 10.55. In this match, he took 2 for 53.

Theekshana helped to show the match too. He took 3 for 31, and has 9 wickets at 18.55 within the match.

“The two of them have been bearing a lot of responsibility in our team,” Nawaz mentioned of Hasaranga and Theekshana. “They’ve borne it well through the course of this tournament so far.”