Sri Lanka Women's Cricket

[criccontent]

Didn't hear Arnold in the commentary

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Prabodhani and Ranaweera might retire in a year.

[pj57]

(09-07-2023, 04:31 AM)criccontent Wrote:  Harshitha has improved a lot. Played according to the situation. Rotates the strike well.

Vishmi is not like that yet.

Different styles. Harshitha is more of an orthodox player and more experienced as well while Vishmi is an attacking batsmen and still very young.

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https://twitter.com/brookeswrites/status/1699510183540461673

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw49k2lLQsr/

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"It's huge," Ratnayake said of Athapaththu's influence on the team. "But our challenge is to win without her. I saw the others sort of stepping into it as well. We've got some good players, but to have another Chamari would be a freakish outcome in the future.

"That's the way we play back home. Sometimes I keep Chamari with me and we play matches without her, and we see where we stand against good opposition, and that's a challenge for the future. It's working out well.

"You'll be surprised, even the smallest can hit sixes now. So we are there, but it's a collective thing, it's a cohesive thing where everybody gets together and works as a team.

"We know where we can be and we can see the picture and that's how we are here and that's what we came for. We spoke of playing cricket for moments like this, for tours like this."

Ratnayake also attributed practice matches against men's sides to helping his players' development, but he highlighted a change in mindset as critical.

"I recognised what we need to do and created an environment which was a learning environment where they were free to express themselves in a fearless manner because I saw them playing cricket in a very fearful way," he said. "When they started to play like that, we saw some good things coming out. It was a challenging environment where they learned a lot of things."

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/sri-lanka-women-series-win-vs-england-really-huge-for-cricket-in-the-country-says-sl-coach-1396775

[pj57]

I guess Rumesh is the lucky charm. Remember the men's team winning against Pakistan with almost a second string side few years back with Rumesh as coach. He seems to somehow get the best out of the players. Not enough recognition given to him.

[criccontent]

Good thing Hashan resigned and went to Bangladesh.  

I remember PJ saying if team is not good enough they can't win whoever the coach is

[pj57]

(09-08-2023, 03:20 AM)criccontent Wrote:  Good thing Hashan resigned and went to Bangladesh.  

I remember PJ saying if  team is not good enough they can't win whoever the coach is

You see Rumesh has used a different approach, giving confidence and promoting players other than Chamari. Now the team doesn't collapse when Chamari gets out.

[criccontent]

That's why I said a good coach is needed. Hashan failed as a coach with so many teams