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- Updated: November 21, 2016
Sri Lanka Cricket’s newly appointed women’s team head coach Hemantha Devapriya is confident that the team will improve despite suffering their second successive series whitewash in the recently-concluded series against England.
“England are one of the leading sides in the top bracket in women’s cricket. Although we lost to a strong side, the girls gave 100% and I can see some improvement,” he said. “The series was a good benchmark for me to gauge what standard we have to reach. We need to give them confidence, they need to learn to handle pressure situations.
“We have to improve in all three areas: batting, bowling and fielding and areas like game awareness, thinking ahead of the game, planning can be done but implementing it under pressure has to improve, handling situations and fitness levels. We have to increase all three areas at least by 10% so by a year’s time it will double. We have to be patient, smart thinking has to come they are not very smart thinkers. There are so many areas we have to improve.”
Among the areas Devapriya stressed upon was the improved batting. Sri Lanka made totals of 168, 173 and 161 in the first three ODIs against England, unlike in the series against …
