They Do Everything Other Than Playing Cricket - Arjuna Ranatunga Furious With Sri Lanka's On And Off Field Disappointing Show

Former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga lets out his incandescent emotions towards the happening in Sri Lanka cricket recently. The team is in complete disarray, both on and off the field.

Arjuna Ranatunga, who captained them to their maiden World Cup title in 1996, says that he would even have slapped the disgraced trio of Kusal Mendis, Danushka Gunathilaka, and Niroshan Dickwella after they were caught flouting the bio-bubble in England. The three players have been sent back home and face sanctions for their misdemeanours.

Arjuna Ranatunga reckons the players are doing everything but playing proper cricket – after getting white-washed 3-0 in the T20Is series, Sri Lanka are 2-0 behind in the ODI series too; these unsurprising results come after they lost 2-1 to Bangladesh in May.

“I would not allow the players to play with social media. They use Facebook, Instagram and do everything other than playing cricket. The Cricket administration was doing nothing about that. They only want publicity.

“If I was the captain of the team, these three players would have been clever players. I may have to slap them two or three times,” Arjuna Ranatunga was quoted by Daily Mirror.lk as saying.

I hope that support and counselling will be made available to the players: Kumar Sangakkara

Another former skipper and legendary batsman, Kumar Sangakkara is also chagrined by the recent happening around the players breaching the bio-bubble. Sangakkara says that proper “support and counselling” must be installed in the system to educate and improve all the players on the personal life front.

“The three players are very senior players, one the vice-captain (Kusal Mendis). There will be an inquiry and there will be a sanction. I hope that support and counseling will be made available to keep developing them, not just skill-wise as cricketers but more as people, to get them really focused on living a positive lifestyle on and off the field,” Kumar Sangakkara said on Sky Sports.

Sri Lanka would be looking for some salvation on a horrible tour when they take the field in the third ODI on Sunday in Bristol.

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