Cricket: Minister asks Sri Lanka to shape up

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has told the nation’s cricket team to start talking to each other to help end their losing streak. Aluthgamage met players, selectors and administrators to find a solution ahead of next month’s tour of South Africa. “It was revealed that the main reason why the national team had failed to perform was due to miscommunication between the team, the selectors and the coaches,” said a ministry statement. Sri Lanka have failed to win a Test or One-Day International series in their last three attempts, namely the tour of England, the home series against Australia and in the UAE against Pakistan.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 1^st, 2011.