After the match was abandoned without even the toss Dimuth Karunaratne speaking at the post-match Press conference said that as a team,they came here for play. “Sometimes you might think if you share the points, it’s fine.
But I think we don’t want to win our points freely. We want to play cricket and win games and gain the points. That’s what I think. I think, unfortunately, rain has — you know, raining all of the places. But well, we're happy with the points and we are going for the next match,” he said.
With a big coming up the his team against Australia, Karunaratne said that every game is a challenging game.
In the last game they played before, till the Australian game they played Afghanistan, it will be 11 days’ gap hence they need to prepare for the games, after winning, and they needed the momentum for that game. “But we are trying hard. We played a practice game against Australia. We know how they are, and how they are going to play with us, so those are the things we have to look after, and we keep planning and doing the right things and hopefully we can do — hopefully we can play a game,” Karunaratne said.
He felt that the reserve days, even for the late stage, he said it is fine. “It is a major tournament, we are playing nine games.
I don’t think they can keep a reserve day for us, because after the next day, you have to travel the different venue, so it's not easy. But I feel if they can put a result, it’s going to be a good final, good for all the spectators and everyone,” he said.
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