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Lankan cricket and 2011 World Cup
Getting knocked out of the Champions Trophy is not the end of the world. Just to sum it up the Lankan lads played the game as good any other on day one and faltered on a bad pitch on day two and followed it up with a very bad day in office on day three. This resulted in their demise and so the same happened to even hosts South Africa and India who are the top dogs in all kinds of cricket in the cauldron.
 
‘Play in tandem’ -ICC elite umpire
Cricket’s very future and how it could survive is the talk of the town. Some prominent cricketers around the world has come out with their own remedial measures, but Sri Lanka’s most respected umpire Asoka de Silva who is also the island nation’s only representative in the ICC elite panel does think the apple cart should not be rocked too much.
 
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