Sri Lanka is one of the test cricket playing nations in the
world. They have introduced some world-class cricketers to world cricket.
Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardane, Sanath Jayasuriya, Muththaiah
Muralidharan is some of the greatest players who took Sri Lankan cricket to
the world. They are the 1996 world cricket champions. No, any other team won a
world cup within 15 years after receiving test status. The main cause for their
world cup success is their own talents.
The domestic cricket tournaments in Sri Lanka are not
high competitive cricket tournaments like Ranji Trophy and Sheffield shield.
Therefore the new players are getting struggle when they come to international
cricket. But if you analyze Indian or Australian newbie players with Sri Lankan
newbie players, you can easily understand they are performed higher than Sri Lankan
newbie players. The major problem of the Sri Lanka cricket team is the gap
between domestic cricket and international cricket.
We, everybody, know Indian new players show their talents in
Indian Premier League by joining with foreign players. The Indian newbie players
taking the experience from foreign top players. This is a huge experience for them.
But Sri Lanka doesn’t have such a t20 league tournament. They tried to start a
franchise cricket tournament on a few occasions. But it was unsuccessful due to
many reasons. Another problem that the Sri Lankan Cricket Board facing is lack
of advertisers. There is a need for high investment for starting such a franchise
cricket tournament.
I personally believe that Sri Lanka can fill the gap between
domestic cricket and international cricket once they introduced a premier
league cricket tournament. If it happened Sri Lankan players can share their
experience with foreign players. Indian Cricket team identified a lot of new
players from the IPL cricket tournament. But Sri Lanka cannot do that because
they don’t have such a tournament.
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