Can't bat, can't bowl... and can't field

Watching Yuvraj Singh gesture to the Indian dressing room after a century in Sri Lanka last week, SR Pathiravithana and a colleague arrived at the notion that this was a mirror image of the cricketing woes of Sri Lanka in the present context. There is something radically wrong and that had to be fixed not with just paste, but some solid bonding concrete, feels Pathiravithana.

A few days later, after Ashantha de Mel, Sri Lanka's chief selector, mentioned that he had not seen anything amiss in local cricket other than some basic flaws, Pathiravithana and his friend revisited what they had noticed during that ODI match. Read on in the Sri Lankan daily, the Sunday Times.