11th August (CRICKETNMORE) - Former Sri Lankan Captain and a member of the World Cup-winning team in 1996, Sanath Jayasuriya said that the current team under the leadership of Angelo Mathews can create history by inflicting a whitewash against Australia for the very first time in their Test history.
"No one thought we would be leading 2-0, everybody thought it would be the other way round but we've turned it around as a team. If we can do that (win 3-0), then it's history. So I hope the boys will realise that we have got a big opportunity", Jayasuriya, who is now chairman of Sri Lanka's selectors, said in an interview in Colombo. Also Check Pics of Ajinkya Rahane and his wife.
He further said about the young and inexperienced "We are in a transition period. We are going with youngsters at the moment with little or no experience. We had a lot of faith in them and we are very happy the way they played ... I think with the experience they will learn, but they have to start somewhere and they started in Sri Lanka."
"They won (the first two Australia Tests) and won convincingly and that's important. So the future for Sri Lankan cricket is bright." Jayasuriya concluded.
Saurabh Sharma