Ex-Sri Lanka skipper Arjuna Ranatunga says his 1996 team would beat this Indian team, in India

Former Sri Lanka skipper Arjuna Ranatunga criticised existent cricket players lacking indispensable skills and blamed franchises for the planetary crippled suffering. Ranatunga elaborated connected his statement by saying that his 1996 Lankan squad would easy decision the existent Indian squad successful India. “When I was captaining successful the aboriginal 90s, you look astatine that batting bid arsenic a player… Gavaskar, Vengsarkar, Amarnath. We couldn’t get them retired twice…Azharuddin, Tendulkar, Vinod Kambli, Dravid follow­ed. What prime players they were. I’ll inquire you a question. Don’t get maine wrong. Do we person that people successful India now? I don’t deliberation so. I’m blunt. I’ll archer you to the face. If I person this Indian broadside play against my ’96 side, I’ll get them retired twice. I’ll bushed India successful India,” Ranatunga said to the Telegraph.

Comparing Indian and Sri Lankan cricketers facing the aforesaid contented of not being capable to make cricketers who could play ‘proper cricket’, Ranatunga said that the worth of playing for one’s state was diminishing capable present that its relation would cease to beryllium successful the aboriginal and franchise cricket would beryllium the lone remaining avenue for the game. The ex-Lankan skipper besides said that Test cricket required ‘quality, method and brains’.