Wasim Jaffer Hilariously Trolls Sri Lanka Cricket For Frequent Captaincy Changes As Dasun Shanaka Replaces Kusal Perera Before India Series
Published - 10 Jul 2021, 01:12 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 05:03 PM
Former India batsman and one of Twitterities’ favourite, Wasim Jaffer has now taken a funny dig at Sri Lanka Cricket as the board has decided to make Dasun Shanaka, a batting all-rounder, their new captain ahead of the India series.
Dasun Shanaka will be replacing Kusal Perera, who himself was appointed as the captain of the Lankan team earlier this year in May.
The SLC has been operating musical chairs with their white-ball captaincy position – as many as 9 players have captained the Lankan side in ODI cricket since 2017, with Dasun Shanaka set to be the 10th skipper in five years.
Wasim Jaffer on Sri Lanka’s frequency changes in a leadership role:
Wasim Jaffer now had his own way of trolling the SLC and their system. He took to Twitter to poke fun at the Islander’s state of cricket.
“Yaar itne to ladke dp nahi badalte jitne SL ne captain badle hai. (Boys do not change their profile pictures as often as Sri Lanka change their captain),” the former openr wrote on Twitter.
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Dasun Shanaka replaces Kusal Perera as the left-hander played lead role in the contracts strife between board the players
There is a lot more to than just poor on-field results which is troubling the cricket in Sri Lanka. This latest switch in captaincy is not just because Sri Lanka has lost all three series under Perera – ODI series versus Bangladesh, and T20I and ODI series against England – but the left-handed opener is also believed to have played a central role in the contracts tussle between the players and board over the past few months.
Perera is reported to have encouraged the players to continue taking a stance against the annual contracts offered to them by the board. On the other hand, Dasun Shanaka is reported to be among the first to agree to sign Sri Lanka Cricket’s tour contracts for the series against India and end the dispute for now.
The 29-year-old all-rounder has only one previous experience of leading the national team – when Sri Lanka whitewashed Pakistan in a three-match T20I series in 2019. The India series has been pushed back a few days – likely to begin only on July 17 instead of July 13 – after the home contingent reported a couple of covid-19 cases.
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