Sri Lanka's Maheesh Theekshana on them all but exiting the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup after their game with Nepal was abandoned due to heavy rain.
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00:00He's going to go home quickly, so we'll rattle through this as fast as we can.
00:04Can you just check that's on there, Mahesh?
00:06The other one?
00:08Is that coming through?
00:10You can hear?
00:12Okay, who would like to...
00:14Oh, you've got that.
00:16Mahesh, the last chance you had to get a visa for the country of Supriya was lost.
00:21You should start with that question.
00:26Do you think the Sri Lankan team will win the World Cup this year?
00:30I don't think so.
00:32I don't think so.
00:46I don't think we'll lose to a team like that.
00:50We were very good in the games.
00:53We had a good mentality.
00:55We helped the board and the batsmen.
00:57We were very good in the last three games.
01:01I think we made a lot of mistakes as a team.
01:06That's why we lost to Supriya.
01:09Mahesh, you said you made a lot of mistakes.
01:12As a player, what do you see as the biggest drawback in our team?
01:18I think we didn't adjust to the conditions quickly.
01:23We made a lot of mistakes in the first and second games.
01:31We gave the wicket too soon.
01:37We lost the momentum we had.
01:40We couldn't do much in bowling.
01:45I don't think we could help the team much.
01:50We played well in the last three games.
01:54We scored 100 or 70 points.
01:57We were in a very good field.
02:02I think we made a lot of mistakes because we didn't adjust to the conditions.
02:21We were here yesterday and there was no rain.
02:28We thought there would be no rain today as well.
02:31We couldn't control the weather.
02:34We didn't play well in the first two games.
02:38We had to earn the spot as well.
02:42I think we didn't earn it because we didn't play well in the first two games.
02:46We can't control the weather, but we have one game left in Saint Lucia.
02:50Looking ahead to that game, what do you think the mindset of the group is?
02:54You have to throw caution to the wind and try everything you can to get a result.
03:00There might be some rain in some of the other games that might help some miracle progress.
03:06In the first three games we didn't have the luck we wanted.
03:13Hopefully we have the luck in the fourth game.
03:17If it rains, it's a miracle if we go through.
03:22If it happens, I'm really happy.
03:25We can't control everything.
03:27We only have one game.
03:29We have to do our best and think about our net run rate.
03:33It's not going to be easy for us.
03:36It's a miracle.
03:38We'll try to play the next game as well as possible.
03:42What do you think went wrong for Sri Lanka in this tournament?
03:51Everything went wrong this year.
03:57We didn't bat well.
03:59We didn't assess the conditions really well.
04:03Everything went wrong.
04:07As a team, right now it's not going to be easy for the next game.
04:13When we look at the last two games that we played, we didn't play well.
04:19We didn't play the best cricket that we had.
04:22I think we didn't earn the spot.
04:25The way we played in the first two games, I don't think we earned the spot for the Super 8.
04:31But still, we have one game left.
04:34We'll try to do our best.
04:36Mahesh, we still have one game left.
04:40What are your plans for that game?
04:42The atmosphere will change after the match.
04:44What are your plans for the next round?
04:48I think our team is made up of 3-4 people.
04:53St. Lucia will play a match.
04:57We have a good bowling unit.
05:03We have a good batting display in St. Lucia.
05:06We'll try to play well in the last game.
05:11Mahesh, a lot of teams in the U.S. haven't scored well.
05:18But the ball will go to the teams that have defended their scores.
05:23The Sri Lankan team hasn't scored well.
05:26But the wide ball and full tosses in the last two games,
05:32how much did that help you to get out of the game?
05:36Personally, I don't know much about the South African game.
05:41We played a Bangladesh game.
05:44We had a good momentum.
05:48They had two wickets.
05:50We had to get a wicket.
05:52We tried to get a wicket.
05:54We could have made a mistake.
05:57We shouldn't make mistakes.
05:59But I think we played well as a team.
06:04We played well throughout the game.
06:07We tried to get a wicket.
06:12That's why we won the game.
06:20That's great.