There is no argument that the Club Cricket system has put in the hard yards and developed the game in the country, thus bringing it to become one of the most competitive sides in the World today. So much so the system provided the base players who won the Cricket World Cup in 1996 – a feat that cricket’s inventor – England is yet to achieve.
It’s an irony that the rain gods had to interfere and dilute the last Lankan international series that was against the West Indies. The Lankan selectors in earnest did divide the five-match series into two segments and named a ‘play-safe’ sixteen for the first two games and left the options open for the next three to ascertain the ‘what could be’.