Fans were also sharing memes asking each other not to watch the national team on television. “Don’t let them have the social media attention if they can’t perform for the national team. “I have been watching cricket matches since 1993 but I have never seen such a weak Sri Lankan cricket team,” sports reporter Manjula Basnayake said on Twitter. What we saw then in Southampton was NOT the Sri Lanka National Cricket Team! At least belatedly, not the old folks, but their own contemporaries in this high-tech age have came to understand the reality.

Source: The Nation June 28, 2021 06:56 UTC