Sri Lanka's Maheesh Theekshana on their thrashing of England at the Cricket World Cup
Sri Lanka's Maheesh Theekshana on their thrashing of England at the ICC Cricket World Cup
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00:00 And please ensure that your phones are muted or on vibrate.
00:03 And please do not speak loud or in the stream
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00:06 So thank you.
00:08 Thank you.
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03:18 Last question.
03:19 Let's start with the team one, Chris.
03:22 Mahesh, until this game, Sri Lanka's bowlers
03:25 did not have a great World Cup.
03:26 But the batters had done well.
03:28 So going into a game like this against a team like this
03:30 in a venue like this, what was the talk like?
03:32 And just talk about how you guys executed the middle over
03:37 bowling, because that is where you got it very tight there.
03:40 Actually, our plan was because the first four games,
03:43 we didn't bowl well in the middle overs.
03:45 And the last game was in the Netherlands,
03:47 we bowled well with the new board.
03:49 So I think we lost the three games as well because
03:53 of our bowling.
03:54 And we did actually do some practice sessions
03:58 to get more discipline.
04:00 All the fast bowlers did their hard work before the game day,
04:04 so they know what they have to do in the game.
04:06 So we just back our strength.
04:08 We just went for the simple plan, just bowling discipline,
04:12 then we can get the success.
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04:15 Last question for you.
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04:58 Our last question.
05:00 You've absolutely thrashed the defending world champions
05:03 and all but knocked them out of the tournament in a way.
05:08 Did you sense before going into this game
05:12 that England were really vulnerable?
05:14 And does it shock you to see just how much they've
05:18 been defeated by everyone?
05:20 I think they underestimate our team
05:22 because we also lost three games and we only
05:25 won against the Netherlands.
05:27 I think they underestimate us.
05:29 That's why the result went our way
05:32 because we backed our strength.
05:34 We went like simple plan.
05:36 So that's why we won the game today.
05:40 Perfect, thank you very much everyone.
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