Sri Lanka Captain Dhananjaya de Silva laments limited fixtures in Test cricket

"It's really disappointing, as a good Test cricketing country, to have only four Tests, honestly, it is a big disadvantage," said De Silva.

By CricTracker Staff

Updated - 29 Jan 2025, 00:00 IST

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The Sri Lankan team is set to host a two-match Test series against Australia which will take place at Galle. This will be a huge test for both the teams who will be playing their last Test series of the WTC 2023-25 cycle. The Australian team is already set to play the World Test Championship final against South Africa in June. 

The Sri Lankan team has had a few decent series in the cycle as well and is currently fifth in the WTC rankings so far. They have played 11 matches where they have won five and lost six in the two-year cycle, which is the least number of matches compared to the other teams. Even Sri Lanka Test skipper Dhananjaya de Silva also had an issue with how their games have been scheduled this season. He believes that their team deserved more matches seeing their performances and still had hope of playing more Test cricket. 

“It's really disappointing, as a good Test cricketing country, to have only four Tests, honestly, it is a big disadvantage, especially considering ours is a good side, as well. I'm hoping we can get more fixtures than we have. We're hoping to discuss the opportunity to play more Test series and hopefully, we get an open window for that. Hopefully, Sri Lanka Cricket can organise something. But all we can do is control what we can, and play good cricket in the matches that we do get," said De Silva as quoted by ESPNCricinfo.

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“We were close to getting to the WTC final, we have a good side and we were unlucky in a couple of games. If you take the two Tests we lost to Pakistan [at the start of the cycle] that was a big drawback. But we need to finish the cycle strong. If we can get to No. 3, then we will be satisfied,” De Silva added.


Sri Lanka Test squad against Australia:

Dhananjaya de Silva (C), Dimuth Karunaratne, Pathum Nissanka, Oshada Fernando, Lahiru Udara, Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Mathews, Kamindu Mendis, Kusal Mendis, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Sonal Dinusha, Prabath Jayasuriya, Jeffrey Vandersay, Nishan Peiris, Asitha Fernando, Vishwa Fernando, Lahiru Kumara, Milan Rathnayake.

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