00:00Afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us for this pre-match press conference with
00:03Sri Lanka head coach Ramesh Ratnayake. Please ensure you've got a microphone in your hand
00:09before you ask a question and please ensure mobile phones are either on mute or vibrate.
00:15We heard a couple of chimes a little bit earlier so we'll get started.
00:23Hi coach, good luck for tomorrow's game. I just wanted to ask you about Hasini Pareda.
00:28She's obviously someone who you have a lot of faith in including her at the top of the order.
00:33Just how much confidence does that innings that she played the other day give you?
00:38And also a follow-up, she seems to get out a lot in the 30s and 40s.
00:44Is there something you all are working on specifically with her to overcome that?
00:50Yeah, well Hasini, we know what potential she has and what she possesses.
00:56And we are working on that whether it's a mental block or a thinking block, whatever it may be.
01:05We are working on that whether we can sort of sustain it for longer periods of time
01:10and whether it could be taken into a big score of 80 runs instead of a 30 or a 40.
01:16So we are working on her on various aspects, various angles.
01:20Yes.
04:14There was a pretty good crowd here the other night.
04:31I think we had 5,000 at one point.
04:33If you had a message to the fans to come out in droves with free entry tomorrow,
04:39what would it be knowing that you've got a great chance against New Zealand to finally win here?
04:44Yeah, please come and support us.
04:46I mean, I would like them to don't give up hope because this is a team which has won matches in the past
04:51and it's a team which has beaten New Zealand in both formats of the game.
04:59So, I mean, every match we sort of go into by focusing on a win and we plan for a win.
05:08So, hopefully it happens tomorrow.
05:11That's the hope of me.
05:12That's the hope of, I'm sure, the spectators as well.
05:14And we are very thrilled to see them coming and supporting the team.
06:03I was very worried about the people who were not aware of this.
06:10This is a reality.
06:12This is not a reality.
06:14We are not aware of this.
06:17We are not aware of this.
06:20We are not aware of this.
06:22We are not aware of this.
06:26I will say that it is not a big question, but the answer is,
06:33the answer is, the answer is,
06:38the answer is, the answer is,
06:43the answer is,
06:46the answer is,
06:55How do you know about this issue?
07:06We are opening up the Vishmi.
07:11When the Vishmi has opened up the opening of the Vishmi,
07:15there are many people who are in the opening of the Vishmi.
07:20For many people, the only thing I ask is that.
07:24We don't know if there's any other thing in it.
07:34In this case, the only thing that I have known is that the migrants need to be vaccinated.
07:42It's like they are not in it.
07:44We don't know if there's any other.
07:46Now, it's not very difficult to get into the company.
07:55But I think that we've had a lot of time.
07:58We've had a lot of time, and we've had a lot of time.
08:01We've had a lot of time coming back.
08:06Thank you very much.
08:36Thank you very much.
09:06Thank you very much.
09:36Thank you very much.
10:06Thank you very much.
10:13Ramesh, apart from India, the other Asia teams have had kind of a – have not been there
10:24with the bat in this tournament.
10:26Obviously, Sri Lanka has been very lucky to have Chamari over the last few years.
10:28In the long term, what is stopping Sri Lanka from having a strong overall batting line-up?
10:36And long-term, what can be done to improve batting stocks here?
10:41If you can sort of rephrase it again, I'll –
10:45Yeah, no, no, just that apart from India, the other Asian teams haven't really turned up
10:49with the batting.
10:50That's been a long-standing problem probably with all three teams.
10:54In terms of Sri Lanka, what can be done long term?
10:58What is the reason for that and what can be done long term to address that?
11:01Well, I think at the moment we are thinking of short term here because whatever long term
11:07is, is in our plans, in the plans of the stakeholders and things like that.
11:13But short term, that shouldn't be an excuse.
11:17It shouldn't be an excuse for the Asian teams.
11:21Because we are much better than what we have performed.
11:25And so we are hoping that it would come any time.
11:30It's because, okay, other than Australia, we've beaten all the other teams.
11:34Excuse me.
11:35And I believe that I wouldn't take that as an excuse.
11:41And, I would want our team to do much better than that.
11:46And our fullest support is for them.
11:49And, hopefully they'll come up on trams tomorrow.
11:53Coach, then first match, the CBC has hit a wick at high.
12:01The team has hit a wick at high in India.
12:04And if we see that they're chasing a lot of a wick at attack,
12:09We have seen a lot of times in the game, but we have seen some of the players in the game.
12:22Thank you very much.
12:52Thank you very much.
13:22Thank you very much.
13:52Thank you very much.
14:22Thank you very much.
14:52Thank you very much.
15:22Thank you very much.
15:52Thank you very much.
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