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Former Minister and cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunge yesterday blamed the cricket administration for the indecent behaviour of three Sri Lankan cricketers during the England tour claiming that such a thing would not have happened under his captaincy.
He told reporters that if he was the captain of the team, he would not have allowed those players to behave in that manner and that they would have been clever players.
“I would not allow the players to play with social media. They use Facebook, Instagram and do everything other than playing cricket. The Cricket administration was doing nothing about that. They only want publicity. If I was the captain of the team, these three players would have been clever players. I may have to slap them two or three times,” he said….
If Arjuna was captain of the team he would have been dropped because he would fail the fitness tests. Arjuna had no discipline when it came to food and fitness.
Arjuna is getting old and grumpy I am afraid! We cannot run a team in 2021 like he did in 1996 when the cricket world was a different world where an amateurish SL outfit was able to win the WC. Today the game is totally professional and times have moved along a quarter of a century.