Often it is the visiting staff from South Africa, England, Australia and New Zealand to the subcontinent that bemoans circumstances and guarantees to do some soul looking on the finish of the sequence. However Australia have accomplished their most dominant sequence victory over Sri Lanka on the island, and the tables have turned, the common order has been upended, and the boot is on the opposite foot.
Spin has traditionally been Sri Lanka’s go-to weapon with which to chop down visiting groups, and the floor in Galle is particularly infamous for taking fast flip. Australia, although, have now inflicted the largest Take a look at loss Sri Lanka had ever suffered adopted by a nine-wicket defeat in successive Checks in Galle.
It’s not as if Galle is about to be blacklisted. However Dhananjaya hinted {that a} higher weight loss program of residence Checks elsewhere – the first venues thought of shall be Pallekele, and the SSC and P Sara in Colombo – may be a extra sustainable staff growth technique.
“As a batter, I do like taking part in within the different venues as a result of my information there are higher,” he mentioned. “If you happen to take our batting averages, they’re decrease than these of batters in different nations, and you’ll see why that’s – as a result of we bat in spin-friendly circumstances.
“It is onerous to have an impressive document on these pitches. However bowlers must be very skillful to get wickets on good tracks too. Nonetheless, I believe it is value fascinated about.”
Dhananjaya mentioned Sri Lanka’s incapability to transform their half-centuries to centuries had contributed considerably to this end result. Each Australia and Sri Lanka had six events of a batter making fifty or extra within the sequence. However 5 of Australia’s batters went on to make a whole lot – together with a double-ton – whereas Sri Lanka’s highest rating of the sequence was 85 not out.
“On these tracks, it’s totally onerous to attain, and we’re at all times speaking about how set batsmen want to attain, and get to 150 or 200 to get to an excellent complete,” Dhananjaya mentioned. “Not all of the six or seven batters who play will get runs, however the gamers that do make begins have to essentially capitalise. Australia had about two batters who scored in every innings, however these batters made huge ones.”
