Sri Lanka batters also fell largely playing by attacking blows.
“There was a serious problem with shooting selections, as well as handling situations,” said Jayasuriya. “I don’t think certain players have managed well situations. They are experienced players and have to be more mature.
“These players have played a lot of Crick and should know how to play. I have talked to them about this. But we have to talk to them in detail about this now. In addition, we cannot blame the wickt. Because we saw how the wickt behaved.
The problem, said Jayasuriya, is that batters do not turn their beginnings into great scores. In the first Australian tickets of the first test in Galle, six batters faced 50 balls or more. In Sri Lanka’s first tickets, only Dineh Chandimal faced more than 50 balls.
“The biggest problem is the batters who are starting but who are not going to play in long tickets,” said Jayasuriya. “This is something that we always murmur. We saw [Usman] Khawaja, [Steven] Smith and [Josh] English, the three had a good start and made them great hundreds. This conversion must be there. We are not consisting of that. Our players should know that these are our conditions and we must use these conditions. There were many opportunities, but we didn’t use them. “
Australian spinners tend to play faster than those of Sri Lanka, but at that time, Sri Lanka spinners had felt that their slower pace was more suitable for this surface.
“They were playing a little faster than us, but we were thinking that our rhythm was the best. That’s what we have been doing. The wickt was on the slowest side and we were trying to play a little faster, but we finished bowling like We usually do here.
“After the third or fourth day, we saw the normal Galle Wickt. What the Australian spinnings did was play a little faster than us. It is usually what they are doing.
“We are used to playing bowling at a slower pace, but it didn’t work in this game. We need to discuss all that too.”
