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Sa'adi Thawfeeq
October 16, 2011
Tillakaratne Dilshan has said the future of Sri Lanka's bowling lay in the hands of the fast men, and not spinners who have been their traditional strength.
"In the past 20 years or so we have depended on the spin of [Muttiah] Muralitharan for our success," Dilshan said before the team left for the UAE to meet Pakistan in a series of three Tests, five ODIs and a one-off Twenty20 International. "Murali is a bowler who can take six-eight wickets in an innings, we have still not found anyone who can do it consistently as him.
"The future for our success lies with our fast bowlers. In the spin department only Rangana Herath has proved himself a top-quality bowler. If we hope to win Test matches we will have to have the support of the other spinners as well."
Sri Lanka has suffered a blow when one of its most promising fast bowlers Shaminder ERANGE was excluded from the tour with a shoulder injury of his bowling arm. He was replaced by Kosala Kulasekara Allrounder.
Sri Lanka took five fast bowlers and spinners two in the UAE. Dilshan said he was not duly concerned that Sri Lanka had yet to record a victory in their last 11 tests. "We lost two games and made nine and not a bad record. We lost the two tests in a very good team in England and Australia, one of which was due to poor batting performance Cardiff and the other at Galle played a draw crucial. If one looks back on the rest of our performance, I am very happy. "
Dilshan said he was confident his team would be able to end the drought to win the UAE. "Pakistan is a mixture of experienced and young talent in their line-up. It will not be easy to beat, but it's a good challenge. I believe we can take the challenge and to overcome them.
"We have not played test matches in the UAE, but we saw videos of the tests by Pakistan to play there. I do not know what the conditions and terrain will be like playing a test series during this time of year there."
Since taking the reins of Kumar Sangakkara Dilshan was the first former Australian cricket Stuart Law as interim coach for the trip to England, and former Sri Lanka fast bowler Rumesh Ratnayake play a similar role in the series at home recently entered against Australia, before Sri Lanka cricket has finally found a permanent replacement for Trevor Bayliss, who resigned at the end of the 2011 World Cup in April.
"I was the captain of Sri Lanka with two different coaches in England and at home against Australia and Marsh is the third. Never got the chance to sit down with a coach and discuss the long-term plans for the team," said Dilshan Nation .
"Marsh has contracts for two years and he is a respected player and coach, and I hope we can build a good partnership and take the Sri Lankan cricket forward," he said.
"I have not talked with him long, I am the way, I see that he thinks his presence will benefit a large number of young people, and we can get a lot of it to develop our cricket. While working together we can find the gaps and overcome. "
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