‘National pride on the line boys’: Jayasuriya urges countrymen to win final ODI
Ex - Sri Lanka skipper Sanath Jayasuriya urged his countrymen to 'fight to the previous' so that you can salvage some pride and win the ultimate ODI against Bangladesh at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Friday.
Sri Lanka are on a good three-match ODI tour to Bangladesh and stuff want grim for the islanders so far. Following the players' kerfuffle with their board regarding signing new deal, Sri Lanka traveled with a fairly inexperienced side, leaving a few major players out of your squad and beneath the different leadership of Kusal Perera.
The Lankans have previously dropped the series 2-0, with the final video game of the series but to be played. Bangladesh, who came into the series on the trunk of nine losses and a drawn Test out in their last 10 suits across formats, had finished their poor manage of web form with a 33-manage victory in the initial ODI while their 103-operate thumping of the tourists in the next ODI on Tuesday helped the Tigers clinch their first-ever bilateral series against Sri Lanka.
And Jayasuriya, who has never lost a single video game against Bangladesh across formats as a captain, found it difficult to fathom that his side are now thrashed by the Tigers.
"As a past participant and captain it is rather difficult for me to come to terms with the primary series damage to Bangladesh. National satisfaction reaches stake boys battle to the previous," tweeted the ex - left-handed opener on Wednesday.
Jayasuriya probably has known reasons for taking this series defeat personally. During his playing time, the left-hander enjoyed the Tigers 28 times -- 22 ODIs, five Tests and a single T20I -- and offers tasted defeat only twice -- in two ODIs in 2006 and in '09 2009 both playing abroad. And in the seven games -- three Exams and four ODIs -- that Jayasuriya led Sri Lanka against Bangladesh, the Lankans received convincingly every time.
Jayasuriya also remains to be second on the list of most works scored by players among both sides when taking part in against the other person in ODIs. The ex - destructive left-hander features plundered 1030 runs at an astounding 54.21 average, incorporating four hundreds and five fifties, in the 22 ODIs performed against the Tigers. His teammate Kumar Sangakkara continues to be on top of that list, amassing 1206 runs at typically 48.24 in 31 ODIs.
Bangladesh's Mushfiqur Rahim, however, is the highest run-getter among the active players of both sides playing against one another. Having performed 32 ODIs, Mushfiqur, who has got smashed a fifty and a match-winning hundred in the ongoing series, has scored 992 runs at typically 34.20, featuring two hundreds and five fifties, against Sri Lanka.
Mushfiqur's 144, scored through the Asia Glass against Sri Lanka found in 2018, can be the wicketkeeper batsman's career-best ODI score.
