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Sri Lanka Women’s coach calls for more domestic matches
- Updated: September 29, 2016
Sri Lanka Women head coach Lanka de Silva has criticised the country’s domestic format, which allows a maximum of five matches a season for a women cricketers. His comments came in the wake of Sri Lanka’s limited-overs capitulation to Australia Women at home; they lost the ODIs 4-0, and the one-off T20 by 10-wickets in what was a record win for the visitors.
“How can you compete with countries like Australia, England and New Zealand when you play so little cricket? Where is the exposure and the experience?” de Silva said.
One of the main reasons for Sri Lanka’s ODI losses to Australia was their batsmen’s inability to bat long periods or build an innings. They batted out the full quota of 50 overs only once in the four matches. Sri Lanka’s hasty approach cost them, de Silva said.
“The difference between Australia and us was that we were quite content hitting …
