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Abhishek Purohit Hyderabad
September 17, 2011
The contrast could not be clearer. Six players from Leicester to intimidate the press conference after their captain Matthew Hoggard, who was smiling from ear to ear, doing everything possible to be happy and interested. After seeing that journalists were sitting about 20 feet from your desk, even implored them to "scream" on the issues, before realizing that there were microphones in place.
A couple of hours later, pale, Mahel Udawatte hard inside, he's just a side dish of Ruhuna coach Sumithra Warnakulasuriya and a promise for possible weak delayed occurrence of Sanath Jayasuriya.
Given the friendly atmosphere Hoggard was, he did not take long for him to go beyond the standard phrases that press conferences are routinely filled. "We are outsiders. Everyone expects us to go home," said Hoggard. Why a page that has won a Twenty20 tournament exhausting home - after 16 league games and one semi-final bound determined by an eliminator - be treated like the outsider? Hoggard had an answer. "We have no star players too," he said.
"But we have some match-winners, and good sound. We, Andrew McDonald, Abdul Razzaq. It will be an interesting tournament. India is a difficult place to come and get results. Two games [qualifiers on each side] is just a lottery, but It takes just two good games to take it away from the opposition. We came with high hopes. "
Leicestershire have sufficient reason to have exorbitant expectations. They had a loss of £ 400 000 last year and Mike Siddall, its chief executive, has admitted he was a financial struggle for the club. They have much to gain if they can do so via the main attraction of the Champions League Twenty20.
Money was the last thing in mind, however, Hoggard. "I do not play for money. And 'a challenge for us here and to test themselves in relation to compete at this level and the top of the world. The money takes care of itself."
T20 testing himself top opposition sides is something that Sri Lanka have not found too easy in previous editions of the Champions League but Udawatte hoped to reverse the trend this time. "We have a good team of young and experienced players like Sanath" Udawatte said. "Batting is our strength, but we also got some decent lippoja fast bowler."
It's the bowlers who are absent but are a concern for coach Warnakulasuriya. "What we miss in Chanaka Welegedara, Suraj and ERANGE Shaminder Randiv which are all national taxes against Australia. The bowling department is a bit weak."
It is not felt so honest with access for all day, all vendors suddenly went very quiet. Udawatte tried to look at some of the positive aspects. "We are very fortunate that Sanath. She always gives good ideas for dressing."
The atmosphere was not so easy to get well. And when Jayasuriya was finally announced that he would not make an appearance, after all, the report ended up disappointed groans.
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