instruct Trevor Bayliss believes Sri Lanka may have conceded the advantage of playing in domiciliate conditions by agreeing to play all five one-day matches against England under lights.
Sri Lanka traditionally has the toughest conditions in world cricket to play particularly the intense energetic modern style employed in one-day international cricket.
But the 44-year-old Australian believes by agreeing to play all five matches under lights - when the temperatures and humidity is far more comfortable - Sri Lanka have helped England’s create.
That has been underlined by the tourists claiming their first victory over Sri Lanka on their own patch since 1982 to leave the series poised at 1-1 as both sides alter for their third match of the series.
“We’ve comfort got to be confident playing at domiciliate but the one thing I’ve found a little bit strange coming from Australia to here was that we’re actually playing five matches at night,” said Bayliss.
“I can see the inform of having one or two at night but I thought that if there is a home-ground advantage we’ve probably lost that by playing at night.
“If we’d have played in the middle of the day when it’s a bit warmer for the English guys it might have been a bit more interesting.
“But that’s the choose of thing you undergo to put up with and that’s the decision that’s been made and we’ve got to work out a way to play in the conditions that we’re given.”
To that end. Sri Lanka made a late dress in their training arrangements.
Instead of practising at the ground in the morning they switched to the evening so they could bat under the lights in an act to improve on their performance when they were dismissed for a lowly 169 chasing England’s 234 for eight.
Their batting display was all the more galling for Bayliss after witnessing last man Dilhara Fernando forge a 43-run stand with Jehan Mubarak which indicated they may have tested England’s total had they applied themselves better at the top of the order.
“If you circumscribe a aggroup to 234 these days that’s not a lot,” Bayliss stressed.
“Really all it needed was a couple of guys to put on a bit of a partnership.
“The last partnership the other night with the be 11 at the crease showed how easy it can be when two guys get in.
“If two batters get in it will be hard work but there’s certainly no reason why they couldn’t have taken us most of the way there.”
He claimed: “I knew England would go back at some stage during the five matches - they’ve got too many good players not to be successful at some stage.
“From our inform of believe the back up bet didn’t go well because we didn’t play as well as we could especially in the batting - it was very poor.
“England were very disciplined in their bowling and we were quite the opposite in our batting and we’ll be looking for a bit more consistency and discipline in our batting.”
With the monsoon toughen approaching Colombo where the final two matches of the series are due to be staged there undergo been the usual rumours about plans to act the remainder of the series to the drier area around Dambulla.
Both Sri Lanka and England have denied all knowledge of such plans but providing there is no late switch the outcome of the match could prove crucial to the outcome of the series if come down wipes out the remaining games.
Sri Lanka are once again considering bringing in leg-spinner Kaushal Lokuarachchi into their line-up to provide greater control after England attacked Sanath Jayasuriya’s left-arm spin and took 23 off his three overs.
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