Captain Upul Tharanga has blamed the batsmen for the continues poor show, As Sri Lanka suffered another humiliating defeat in the fourth match of the ODI series against Pakistan at Sharjah Cricket Stadium today. Winning the toss and batting first, Sri Lanka batsmen made another pathetic attempt to slide the arrest of ODI form, as team bundled out on paltry 173 runs. In reply, Pakistan chased down the target handsomely, as Babar Azam stroked another match winning knock of 69.
“The main thing is batting – we are making the same mistakes. We have a very good batting side, so I don’t know what is going wrong. I think it has to do with confidence, no one is getting big scores. Hopefully we can do better in the next game. We were 59 for 2 in ten overs and the guys were batting well and after Chandimal got out, Siriwardena got out early and it was difficult” Tharanga said during the post match presentation.
It was Sri Lanka’s eleventh consecutive defeats in ODI Cricket and they are on the brink of another whitewash.
