Trevor Chesterfield has shed a little light on some of the bizarre Sri Lankan selection policies. This is what he had to say:
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The Sri Lankan team was badly prepared for the India tour with too many bosses and no direction from the selection during the ongoing Idea Cup tri series in Bangladesh.
It is Test and ODI series that may give India a bigger opinion of their own ability than they should have. The Sri Lanka team management had a coach (Trevor Bayliss), Stuart Law (assistant coach), Chandika Harturusinge (shadow coach - a position no one has been able to explain and whose coaching styles over-stepped those of the designated coaches) and a fielding coach in Manoj Abeywickrama whose fielding strategy and planning had no idea of how bowling strategies are meant to synergise.
That would explain some of the mayhem in the Sri Lankan dressing that even Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lankan captain, seems at a loss to explain.
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