Sri Lanka youth netball coach confident of whipping South Korea

CONFIDENCE is more important than talent Friday, 09 June 2023 07:45 PM

This kind of captain Sri Lanka needs , a captain who speaks with confidence and a bit of “ arrogance “. Last time we had such a captain was Arujuna Ranatunga who brought us the World Cup in cricket. All other captains of Sri Lankan teams are timid personalities always trying to be diplomatic and specially pleasing to India. When Kumar Sangakara and Mahela Jeyawardana were captains of Sri Lankan teams , whenever Sri Lanka had any encounter with India , both would always bent over backwards to say good things about India and praise the Indian players .Then how could have the Sri Lankan cricket team got the courage and confidence to beat the Indian teams. That was why under their leadership, even though the teams were talented, they lost often to Indian cricket teams. This Sri Lankan netball captain dismissing the South Korean team as “ nothing “ is the way to generate confidence. We do not need Western coaches to be our team managers , we can manage our teams ourselves.

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Man Saturday, 10 June 2023 07:32 AM

Best wishes for the team and hopefully, the netball world cup will be brought to Sri Lanka like Arjuna, one day. Both, Kumar and Mahela were talented players than Arjuna and very diplomatic which is great. So, Kumar became the Chairman of MCC as a world class player and the first nonwhite which was a peculiar feat for his diplomacy and for that speech and not due to belligerence. In fact, Sri Lanka beat India in the T20 final against India, under Kumar, too.

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Tissa Fernando Saturday, 10 June 2023 05:09 PM

Only problem is that these players talk big before the game. Is it something in Sri Lankan DNA to talk big always.

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