Poor Sri Lanka (ODI) Batting Displays!

be in vain. And the proud history, that we posses will be lost forever and ever. So let's swim against the waves, and bring back the Great Attitudes and the Great nation we had a long time ago.

So let's make this Pearl of the Indian ocean a Paradise, in the meaning of the full form..!!!

I love and am proud of my Motherland, Sri Lanka. May she be blessed by Lord Buddha, Jesus, Allah and all the powers of the world.!!!

(Chinthana Thanthirige, 3rd year Engineering student, NIT

Jamshedpur, India.)

A practical approach on the self- styled “back-tracking” of our batting has to be reassessed positively!

1. Opening “toss-won” chanced stints are invariably found pitifully squandered with a “lolly” of a score for the opponents to revel in!

2. Purposeful batting with “heads bent down” especially to achieve a targeted scores, at least upto the first 10- 20 overs ( should apply to earlier first stint batsman too) is usually never taken as a sound strategy?

3. “Play your own game” advised batsman along with the big hitters ( a’ la IPL style) and the ever slashing of balls going past culprits tends to take heavy toll of organized out-lays- a good bowler of the international circuit is sure to get his quarry soon on these types! (“Slasher Mackay of yesteryear Australia tests was noted for his judicious ignoring of balls whizzing past hairs - breadth away from his sticks).

4. Tail- ender batsmen have many a time deprived Sri Lanka victory or even oriented defeat with their non- support ( sic) to a middle order batsman coming purposefully down the order finding himself stranded minus a partner to keep the other end secure. All fast bowlers who really are in the tail-ender group should be arbitrarily given about ½ an hour of special practice sessions on defensive batting and to leave balls outside the wickets completely alone. W. Meadows.

Dehiwala.