Sri Lankan selectors have been the biggest reason behind the team's poor performances in recent times. The success of the second-string Sri Lankan side in Pakistan only proves this longstanding issue.
Shorter formats now leave no room for amateurish managerial travesties. Sri Lanka are less likely to mend their way of managing their cricket team. It is only right that the inevitable is acknowledged.
Sri Lanka should stop thinking that certain players are be-all and end-all of the team and must look beyond them if they are to regain their pride in world cricket.
Sri Lanka can either replace Kusal Perera with a new number three or promote Kusal Mendis at the risk of it having a domino effect on the positions of other batsmen.
“The clubs have voting rights, as I mentioned, and it is a conscious decision they have to make: are they going to be selfish or are they going to use those votes for the greater good of cricket in Sri Lanka?”