Cricket: One captain for national cricket to be adopted soon

The Sri Lanka cricket team is to adopt the ‘one captain’ policy instead of one captain for the Test and ODIs and a separate captain for the Twenty20 segments. 

In all possibility this change would happen before the Lankan team tours India for a short three T20 match series from February 6 to 16.

A spokesman for SLC revealed: “Yes, we have taken a decision on these lines, but, still we have not got the executive committee sanction for it.”

“We do not see any special reason that we should have a separate captain for the T20 segment. If the national captain is good enough to lead the other two segments why shouldn’t he captain the T20 team also?” he added.

In February 2014, when Angelo Mathews was named to succeed Mahela Jayawardena in his second coming as the national captain, Dinesh Chandimal was named the captain of the T20 segment.

However just prior to the T20 World Cup that was played in Sri Lanka in Bangladesh in 2014, Chandimal who faced a sudden slump in his batting form was dropped and fast bowler Lasith Malinga was named as stop-gap captain.  

In the last T-20 series which Sri Lanka lost to New Zealand 2-0 Chandimal was named as captain after Malinga was out of the series through injury.