Sri Lanka Performance Review

 

Sri Lankan Cricket Board will be very happy with their team’s performance in the World Cup, especially after off field distractions. The controversies involving coach, selectors, players, then the bombing incident – all this would have been very hard on players taking part in high prestigious tournament.

However inspite all this, the team did pretty well under new captain D Karunaratne –

 

The positive points to be taken from WC.

 

• They were one of the 3 teams(India and England) to post opening century stand against Australian bowling attack. It was one of the fastest century stand against Aussies!.
• They had 3 wins – and beating England would be the sweetest memory for them!.
• Interestingly 2 of the 3 wins came when there was bit of help from condition. The pitch was getting slower, and enough movement throughout 100 overs, allowing Sri Lanka bowlers to defend a small target!.

Target of < 250 was asked in 18 Matches, 5 won, 13 lost. (including reduced match) and Sri Lanka is only team to do it twice!..

 Here is a list of teams that had to defended less than 250 successfully .

Sri Lanka played 4, won 2 and lost 2

Australia played 2, won 1 and lost 1

India played one, won 1

New Zealand played 2 won 1, lost 1

 

Statistical Analysis

 

ODIs – 9

Won -3 (AFG, ENG, WI)

Lost 4 (AUS, IND,NZ, SA)

ABD- 2 (PAK, BANG)

 

KPI comparison of (WC-2019) v/s Recent(pre WC -2019)

 

No huge difference between two periods.

World Cup 2019			Pre World Cup (in 2019 )
Batting	Bowling	Indicators	Batting	Bowling
26.15	40.53	Avg	25.29	46.90
5.18	5.86	R/o	5.51	6.31
30.29	41.53	St. Rate	27.52	44.63
46.49	50.33	Scoring Rate	46.23	55.32
7.99	10.66	Boundary rate	9.81	12.17
49.52	41.90	L 4	42.03	46.92
38.98	46.24	6 +	13.40	17.93

 

10-over phases

Batting

 

Batting	Wkts	Avg	R/O	St.Rate	Scoring Rate	Boundary rate	% 6 + R/o	% < =4 R/o
(0-10)	9	48.11	6.22	46.44	41.15	14.59	51.67	35.89
(11-20)	11	27.64	4.29	38.64	45.41	4.00	28.24	64.94
(21-30)	14	21.57	4.33	29.86	46.41	4.31	25.84	58.85
(31-40)	15	21.40	5.62	22.87	46.94	10.20	47.23	41.98
(41-50)	13	20.08	5.72	21.08	55.84	6.93	45.99	41.61

 

The first power play was Sri Lanka’s best period in the World Cup!

 

Batsmen in phases

(0-10)	Balls	Runs	4s	6s	Scoring shots	Wkts
K Perera	148	183	27	1	81	3
Karunaratne	155	109	16	0	50	3
A Fernando	78	90	13	2	32	1
K Mendis	27	7	0	0	7	1
1st Phase total	418	397	58	3	172	9

 

 

(11-20)	Balls	Runs	4s	6s	Scoring shots	Wkts
K Perera	66	76	6	0	50	3
Karunaratne	87	70	4	0	47	2
K Mendis	68	37	3	0	25	1
Thirimanne	67	37	1	0	29	0
Mathews	89	30	1	0	23	1
T Perera	10	18	0	1	8	0
A Fernando	27	14	1	0	10	2
2nd Phase total	425	283	16	1	193	11

 

(21-30)	Balls	Runs	4s	6s	Scoring shots	Wkts
K Mendis	91	74	5	0	50	3
Mathews	76	53	4	0	37	2
Karunaratne	60	40	2	0	31	0
Thirimanne	40	35	2	0	25	2
A Fernando	30	27	1	1	15	0
K Perera	30	14	0	0	11	0
T Perera	17	11	0	1	6	2
Dhananajaya de Silva	29	10	0	0	8	1
Udana	17	10	0	1	5	1
3rd Phase Total	418	283	15	3	194	14

 

(31-40)	Balls	Runs	4s	6s	Scoring shots	Wkts
Mathews	85	79	7	2	44	2
Dhananajaya de Silva	68	64	6	1	33	1
A Fernando	33	43	6	0	21	0
Thirimanne	26	27	4	0	14	1
K Mendis	26	25	0	2	14	2
J Mendis	34	17	1	1	8	1
Lakmal	13	15	2	0	9	0
T Perera	12	15	0	1	8	1
Udana	15	8	1	0	4	2
4th Phase total	343	303	28	7	161	15

 

(41-50)	Balls	Runs	4s	6s	Scoring shots	Wkts
Mathews	60	69	6	1	41	1
Dhananajaya de Silva	67	43	3	0	33	1
Thirimanne	29	40	3	0	22	0
A Fernando	24	29	2	1	15	1
Udana	43	27	2	0	18	3
T Perera	25	17	0	0	15	3
Malinga	12	6	1	0	3	3
5th Phase total	274	237	17	2	153	13

 

Bowling

 

Bowling	Wkts	Avg	R/O	St.Rate	Scoring Rate	Boundary rate	% 6 + R/o	% < =4 R/o
(0-10)	8	45.38	5.19	52.50	39.29	11.90	40.00	50.00
(11-20)	6	58.83	5.35	66.00	51.77	7.32	40.91	50.00
(21-30)	4	87.00	5.80	90.00	52.22	9.17	43.33	41.67
(31-40)	8	40.25	6.38	37.88	55.78	11.55	55.45	25.74
(41-50)	14	16.79	7.75	13.00	59.89	16.48	62.64	32.97

 

The first power play was very good for some bowlers.

 

Bowlin	Balls	Runs	Wkts	r/o	% mdn	C 4	L 4
Malinga	193	172	6	5.35	9.33	21.76	43.52
Pradeep	60	38	1	3.80	10.00	30.00	60.00
Udana	30	17	1	3.40		40.00	80.00
Dhananjaya de Silva	42	26	0	3.71		28.57	71.43
Lakmal	41	48	0	7.02		29.27	43.90
T Perera	24	29	0	7.25	25.00	25.00	25.00
Rajitha	30	29	0	5.80	0.00	20.00	40.00
(0-10)	420	359	8	5.13	7.14	25.71	50.00

 

 

(11-20)	balls	Runs	wkts	r/o	% mdn	C 4	L 4
Dhananjaya de Silva	48	37	1	4.63	0.00	75.00	75.00
Pradeep	36	20	1	3.33	16.66	16.67	50.00
T Perera	120	84	1	4.20		30.00	65.00
Udana	89	83	1	5.60		13.48	40.45
Rajitha	30	35	1	7.00		20.00	20.00
J Mendis	31	26	0	5.03			58.06
Lakmal	24	32	0	8.00
Malinga	13	27	0	12.46
2nd Phase total	396	348	5	5.27	1.52	25.76	50.00

 

(21-30)	balls	runs	wkts	r/o	% mdn	C 4	L 4
Pradeep	47	39	2	4.98		38.30	51.06
Dhananjaya de Silva	96	98	1	6.13		25.00	43.75
Vandersay	30	37	1	7.40		0.00	0.00
J Mendis	24	28	0	7.00		0.00	25.00
Lakmal	30	22	0	4.40		60.00	80.00
Malinga	36	37	0	6.17	16.66	33.33	50.00
T Perera	12	11	0	5.50		0.00	0.00
Udana	72	62	0	5.17		25.00	50.00
3rd Phase Total	360	346	4	5.77	1.66	25.00	41.67

 

(31-40)	balls	Runs	wkts	r/o	C 4	L 4
Malinga	71	76	4	6.42	16.90	25.35
Dhananjaya de Silva	24	23	1	5.75	25.00	25.00
Rajitha	24	29	1	7.25	0.00	25.00
J Mendis	12	16	0	8.00
Pradeep	12	11	0	5.50
Siriwardana	12	17	0	8.50
T Perera	80	73	0	5.48	22.50	52.50
Udana	56	57	0	6.11	0.00	10.71
4th Phase total	303	318	6	6.30	11.88	25.74

 

(41-50)	balls	runs	wkts	r/o	C 4	L 4
Udana	63	77	4	7.33	19.05	28.57
Malinga	59	61	3	6.20	20.34	40.68
Dhananjaya de Silva	12	13	2	6.50		50.00
Pradeep	18	49	1	16.33
Mathews	12	6	1	3.00	50.00	100.00
T Perera	6	10	0	10.00
Rajitha	12	18	0	9.00
5th Phase total	182	234	11	7.71	16.48	32.97

 

Partnerships Avg(Bat v Bowl) with No.century stands(in bracket)

 

Batting Partnerships –

Apart from opening stand they had some support in the middle order

 

Batting Partnerships against Sri Lanka  

Huge opening stand partnerships by India (189) and New Zealand(137*) and then South African put on 175 for 2^nd wkt. These stands dented their bowling!.

 

Batting	WC – Partnerships	v/s
55.86 (1)	1st wkt	69.14 (2)
24.43	2nd wkt	48.83  (1)
31.43	3rd wkt	56.00 (1)
24.00	4th wkt	19.40
32.57 (1)	5th wkt	27.50
27.29	6th wkt	37.75
17.86	7th wkt	23.50
7.33	8th wkt	13.75
10.60	9th wkt	6.67
7.50	10th wkt	12.33

 

All data updated at end of World Cup 2019