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Sri Lanka's costly wake-up call in Pakistan
The Island
|December 01, 2025
The three-week tour of Pakistan may not have delivered the results Sri Lanka desperately wanted, but it certainly dished out a basket of valuable lessons.
The ODI series was a sore point — Sri Lanka repeatedly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Over the last two years, white-ball cricket had taken a promising upward swing, only for the last three months, Asia Cup included, to unravel much of that hard graft.
The reaction after the Asia Cup was as knee-jerk as they come. The coaching staff was swept aside. Charith Asalanka, already carrying the weight of captaincy, found himself further under the pump when former skipper Dasun Shanaka was appointed his deputy in T20s — a move that dripped with insecurity.
Granted, Sri Lanka didn't cover themselves in glory during the Asia Cup. But the margins of defeat were wafer-thin and crucially, every loss came after a proper scrap.
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