Sri Lanka have won 24 of 86 ODIs since stalwarts Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara retired after the 2015 World Cup, with the captaincy changing hands six times since. “It is not easy when you don’t know the players and they haven’t played a single game in a long time,” Karunaratne told a news conference on Friday. “Even me, I came back into the side after four years so it is not easy. “I think all the members did really well in the recent past I think at the domestic level. New Zealand reached the final in the 2015 edition but their all-out aggressive approach came unstuck in the decider as they finished runners-up to Australia.

Source: bd News24 May 31, 2019 16:30 UTC