Sri Lankan spinner Mahesh Theekshana has criticised his workforce's busy T20 World Cup schedule, calling it 'unfair'. The Wanindu Hasaranga-led aspect is taking part in its 4 group stage matches at 4 completely different venues. The spinner revealed that the workforce resort, the place they started their marketing campaign towards South Africa on June 3, was an hour and 40 minutes away from the venue. In the meantime, he additionally revealed that they needed to take care of delayed flights and lengthy hours spent at airports.
“It's very unfair for us, we have now to depart day by day (after the match) as a result of we’re taking part in in 4 completely different venues. It's not honest. The flight we took from Florida, from Miami, we needed to wait on the airport for nearly eight hours to get on the flight. We needed to go away at 8 pm, however we received a flight at 5 am,” Theekshana mentioned after Sri Lanka's opening match loss to South Africa.
Sri Lanka is the second workforce after the Netherlands to play their 4 group stage matches at 4 completely different venues. After their first match towards South Africa in New York, the Asian workforce will journey to Dallas for his or her second match towards Bangladesh on June 8. Their third Group D stage match towards Nepal is scheduled for June 12 in Florida, adopted by a match towards the Netherlands in St Lucia on June 17.
Theekshana mentioned, “I can’t identify the groups who have gotten the possibility to remain on the identical place. However their resort is just 14 minutes away from the bottom. Our resort was about an hour and 40 minutes away.” However, South Africa has to play their subsequent two matches in New York and after that they are going to go to St. Vincent for his or her final group stage match.
The Sri Lankan spinner mentioned, “I can’t identify the groups who’re taking part in on the identical place, in order that they know what the situations are like there. They’re taking part in apply matches on the identical place. Nobody will perceive this. We performed apply matches in Florida and our third match can be in Florida.” Theekshana additional defined how the Sri Lankan workforce needed to get up early within the morning, pack their issues shortly and return solely after taking part in the match. Subsequently, the workforce is going through many challenges.
Allow us to inform you, Sri Lanka has confronted defeat towards South Africa in its opening match. Within the opening match towards South Africa, the workforce's batting faltered badly and the workforce was all-out for 77 runs. In response, South Africa received in 16.2 overs with 6 wickets in hand.
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