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A Great Day for Sri Lankan Cricket – Dilshan Saturday 31st December, 2011 A great day for Sri Lankan cricket – Dilshan Rangana Herath celebrates a dismissal of a Protea batsman, with wicket-keeper Dinesh Chandimal, during the second Test against South Africa in Durban last Thursday. Herath was named Man of the Match for his match-bag of nine wickets as Sri Lanka won the match by 208 runs. Good show in Durban helps Herath to enter top-ten ICC Rankings How perseverance helped Herath Rex Clementine reporting from Durban Left-arm spinner Rangana Herath made his Test debut in 1999, but the pres- ence of the indispensable Muttiah Muralitharan meant that he was in and out of the team. Sri Lanka could call up the part-time left-arm spin of Sanath Jayasuriya as well when necessary and therefore Herath was hardly needed to rep- resent the country as the selectors often opted for leg-spin as the next best option after Murali. Whilst doing pretty well in domestic cricket, Herath also represented Hampshire and Surrey in county cricket and played league cricket in England for several years. His moment of glory finally arrived in 2009 when Muralitharan was injured for the home series against Sri Lankan players celebrate after winning their first Test on South African soil, in Durban, on Thursday, Dec. 29. Sri Lanka beat South Africa by 208 runs to level the three-match series at 1- Pakistan and perceiving a weakness in the opposition against left-arm spin bowling, 1. (AP Photo) newly appointed captain Kumar REX CLEMENTINE The Test ended cricket. When I say Centurion, we really worked hard Sangakkara requested the selectors to reporting from Durban inside four days with playing our brand of and we stuck to a game plan. We bring Herath down from England. a massive 208 run cricket, I mean put- wanted to be positive and it was a After arriving in Colombo less than 24 The national cricket team win for Sri Lanka. ting the loose balls big decision to bat first after win- hours before the first Test in Galle, Herath arrived in South Africa with their Captain Tillakaratne away and playing ning the toss. Once we put runs bowled Sri Lanka to victory in the first weakest bowling unit ever to Dilshan speaking to shots without letting on the board, we were on top. Test in Galle, winning the Man of the come to this country. Arjuna journalists rated the the opposition domi- Everyone contributed for this vic- Match award and toured India later that Ranatunga in 1998 and Sanath victory as one of the nate. That was the tory by giving 100 percent and I year for a three-Test series. The emergence Jayasuriya, in 2000 and 2002, greatest moments in key and that worked am really happy with the team of off-spinner Suraj Randiv, with age on arrived with key bowlers such as the Sri Lankan crick- for us. When we work,” he added. his side, put doubts about Herath’s place in Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah et history. and I am jubilant.” bowled we kept to a steady line. Since making a career best 193 the side again. But to a side that lacked Muralitharan still at their prime. “It’s a fantastic feeling. This is The Sri Lankans arrived in Welagedara did well in the first at Lord’s in June this year, experience badly, he was considered vital This time around, Sri Lanka’s our first Test win here and I am Durban six days prior to the Test innings and then Rangana Dilshan has been out of form and he got the nod ahead of Randiv as the attack had just one bowler who proud of the team to have after the humiliating loss at Herath was fantastic throughout struggling at times with a frac- No.1 spinner in the team since Murali’s had taken over 100 Test wickets achieved this. It’s not been easy, Centurion and took two days off. the game. Restricting South tured thumb. “This is one of the retirement last year. and he happened to be a spinner. but I am glad we improved on our Then they were supposed to train Africa for 160 on this wicket in greatest moments in my cricket Earlier this year, he completed 100 Test Simply incomparable to what record here,” he said. for three days ahead of the Test the first innings was a great effort career. I personally need to get wickets, in the third Test against Australia South Africa had to offer in the “I feel this is one of best Test Match, but two of those days were by the boys.” some runs. This Test I got a start at SSC, becoming only the fourth Sri form of Steyns, Morkals and co. wins. It’s not easy to beat South washed off by rain forcing them Sri Lanka will take a morning in the first innings, but I got out Lankan to achieve the milestone. When they suffered a humiliat- Africa in South Africa. I am to train indoors. Sri Lanka had a flight to Cape Town on Saturday to a full toss. Had I batted for He has done pretty well this year being ing loss at Centurion inside three extremely pleased with the per- net session on Christmas day, and will train for two days before another session things could have the highest wicket taker for Sri Lanka in days by an innings, predictions formance we put out throughout before the Boxing Day Test, and the final Test at Newlands that been easy for the team. I am look- Test cricket with 41 wickets in ten Tests at were for a three-nil whitewash. the four days of the Test Match,” after electing to bat first having gets underway on Wednesday. ing forward for the Cape Town an average of 29.07. But through sheer hard work and Dilshan added. won the toss, they executed their “We have a good chance to win Test and if I can score some runs, The domination of pace at Centurion better planning, the Sri Lankans It was also his first win as cap- plans well to catch the Proteas off the series. We will have to see the team will benefit. It won’t be and the hardness of the Durban wicket caught the Proteas off guard and tain after leading in 11 Tests. “It guard. what conditions Cape Town has easy. We need to work very hard prompted the team management to ponder walked away with their first Test feels like a long time. I have wait- “We tried to be positive from to offer for us. We have to prepare and be positive,” he added. an all seam attack for Durban, but the fact win in South Africa. ed for six months for this moment ball one and played our brand of accordingly. After the defeat in that spinners Graeme Swann and Harbhajan Singh had done well in the last two Tests played in Durban, made them progress with Herath. He repaid that faith Sports officers bowling Sri Lanka to a famous victory Sri Lankan team thanks which will be spoken of for many more years to come. to develop In the modern day of heavy bats, flat tracks and ability to scrutinize bowlers rural sports with the aid of computers, the spinners Kepler Wessels were said to be requiring the ‘X factor’ to succeed. The ability to bowl the doosra or Minister Aluthgamage will appoint ‘the carom ball’ was considered the key for divisional level sport officers to develop success of spin bowlers. “We actually want to thank Kepler Wessels. He gave us the rural sports in the country, from Jan. 1, Sangakkara, after his hundred in 2012. He said nearly 40 sports associa- Durban, called Herath ‘an old fashioned motivation. We are very, very thankful to Mr. Wessels,” tions out of 52 are represented at inter- spinner’ and the ‘workhorse’ of the team and that is exactly what he proved to be national sports events and 23 national persevering with patience, letting the bats- Dilshan told journalists on Thursday. “I would like to thank sports events. men make the mistake. In the end, the him very much. We have proved that we are good. We said if The Minister further stated that the rewards were outstanding for not very lack of sports officers in these associa- often a spinner wins the Man of the Match awards in South Africa. we played the Sri Lankan brand of cricket, we can beat any- tions had resulted slow improvement in He picked up four wickets in the first the national sports and as a result the innings as Sri Lanka restricted the Proteas one. We came, we played our brand of cricket and we beat sportspersons were unable to represent for 168 and then picked up a five-wicket many national and international events. haul to be named Man of the Match. one of the world’s best teams.” “When you take the spin bowlers who To develop rural sports and to have had success over the years, you need Kepler Wessels improve the talent in the rural sports- to get your basics right. All what I did was Rex Clementine Wessels had told Cape Times, a anyone. We men and women, it is necessary to to stick to my basics and things worked for reporting from Durban South African newspaper, that the came, we played our brand of cricket appoint these sports officers at rural me,” Herath told journalists after his match-winning performance.
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