As Sri Lanka suffered another humiliating defeat in the fourth match of the ODI series against Pakistan at Sharjah Cricket Stadium yesterday y, Not only the die hard cricket fans, but Former players also got angry.
Former middle order batsman and now a commentator Russel Arnold broke down after witnessing another poor show by his countrymen. Eventually, he expressed his disappointment on Twitter.
“Oh dear… I can’t post a video of 10mimute silence can I ???” posted Russel Arnold on his twitter handle.
Then he pointed out the main reason of defeat after defeat in last one year.
“Its simple really..its just the inability to rotate strike that has SL in this hole…hmmmm …been saying this for years” he wrote in another post.
Fans too landed their support to Arnold, with some nasty blows against the Sri Lanka batting line up.
“@RusselArnold69 Bhaisahaab not just inability to rotate strike Sri Lanka look weak in everything from last one year. Play with marbles 😃” wrote Mayanti Langer, wife of team India’s allrounder Stuart Binny.
“@RusselArnold69 So why support chandi (the master of the “unable to rotate strike” set of batsmen)???” wrote Muhammad.
“@RusselArnold69 Specially the likes of chandimal should concentrate only on test matches rather than in ODIs” wrote Zzakir.
“@RusselArnold69 I think Sri Lankans are very closely following their batting coach’s strike rate” wrote Ananda Chandrasekara.
“@RusselArnold69 at his best!! Giving food to Chandi and Thiri so they won’t eat too many balls!! #PAKvSL” Ieshaka Karunarathne.
“@RusselArnold69 Feel for u Russel. Tough times. I dont want to read or watch anythng abt @OfficialSLC for sometime” Malith Liyanage.
