After winning the Asia Cup, Sri Lanka heads to the T20 World Cup full of confidence
Sri Lanka skipper Dasun Shanaka is sure that his team will put on a strong performance ahead of the crucial T20 World Cup, which will be held in Australia later this month.
Sri Lanka was recently buoyed by an Asia Cup victory, in which they defeated India once and Pakistan twice in successive matches in the United Arab Emirates. After being crushed by Afghanistan in the first game, the turnaround in that tournament was stunning.
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Shanaka’s confidence is significantly higher as the squad prepares to travel for Australia. “I’m certain we can come out triumphant if we make the correct decisions on the day and execute our plans,” he told reporters.
“The level of confidence is obviously more than it was at the last World Cup, but my main focus has always been the process. Even in the last World Cup, I thought we had enough potential to make the semi-finals. What matters is your ability to play and deliver on the day.”
Sri Lanka will play Namibia in the World Cup’s first round on October 16, and they will travel to Australia roughly two weeks before the event begins. Sri Lanka attended a training camp in Kandy before to their trip, where they were quite explicit about what they needed to concentrate on as a unit.
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“With the bowling, we’re still working on yorkers to ensure we can be successful on Australian wickets and have the ability to back up our ideas,” he added.
“Before the Namibia game, we have a few of warm-up games. We’ll practice match scenarios between ourselves first to ensure that we can manage the atmosphere in which we’re practicing.”
“In fact, we’re pretty explicit about what we’re attempting to train. For example, we conducted a Super Over up in Kandy, which was all in good fun, but it highlighted where the Super Over can be a little crazy. It everything occurs so rapidly, and we have to retain our cool.”
Another thing the teams will concentrate on is getting acclimated to the large grounds in Australia and how the fielders would have to position themselves to reduce the angles.
“Then there’s the size of the grounds in Australia – they’ve got some large grounds – and we’ll have to learn to deal with them.We need to get the distance perfect off the boundary to reduce the angles down and get the lads acclimated to it,” he concluded.
