(12-20-2021, 01:56 PM)slcricfan1 Wrote:(12-20-2021, 01:45 PM)stillwill Wrote: Avishka is seriously talented, he is rare to find. Sometime you just have to suck it and let these guys play, make mistakes and have them learn from it. The typical 20 or odd so players that we know will always be in the contention. Liyanage looks good, very good, most importantly, he seems very calm and doesn't show emotions. He is 26, i'd given him an A tour chance and he sees how he performs. Wouldn't rush him in just yet.
I have very high hopes of Kamindu Mendis, he can score all around the park, bowl decent finger spin with both arms for a batting allrounder. He hits big sixes with ease. Unfortunately he has been disappointing. The occasion might have gotten to him. Should be a regular A team player and should be a decent middle order player for the national team. He can be back up to Chamika. But he needs to be consistent.
Out of the few matches that I watched, the talent is decent and the 3-4 matches all were interesting. I like this season better than the last one. I know there weren't big stars, but it was still fun to watch.
the spin bowling talent is insane in SL. THe batting is okay with Asalanka, Mendis, Janith, Danuska and a couple others doing well and the fast bowling seems pretty awful barring Nuwan Thushara and Binura.
I thought Vumkuthi was good, but I don't know about insane lol. Preople use to give me shit for rating Vandersay so high, but he has found his form it seems. Look's like he has ditched his killer slider/flipper that was forcing him to bowl lot of terrible balls and has something similar but a little slower.
The issue is SL on the surface has good batting talent, but they all have to perform and it can be a struggle. Everyone has weakness and strength, most of these guys have been playing cricket since they were babies, if they still have weakness it is truly difficult to patch up. 21 year Tharanga was super impressive, had an issue with nicking towards the wk and slips, never corrected it. So it is tough to predict how they will do. I mean Kapugedara was pretty talented, people give him shit for playing 200+ matches, but he mostly played under Mahela-Sanga captaincy, they could have easily benched him, but they didn't so they definitely saw something in him. Unmukt Chand is another example, he was a U19 WC winning captain was the firs u-19 player to do ads with Kohli and Dhoni. He didn't go elsewhere, now he is playing cricket in US lol.