'We have your coach'

It has been about a long time since two of the best players in the historical backdrop of Sri Lankan cricket - Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene - resigned from worldwide cricket, leaving a colossal vacuum in the nation's national group. 

Sri Lanka has persevered through an extreme time for as far back as three years, with their intend to recover appearing like a tough errand. 

Sri Lankan cricket achieved its pinnacle when they won the ICC World Cup in 1996 under Arjuna Ranatunga and in this manner, fans appear to have lost some of their eagerness with regards to following the diversion all the time 

Things started to pivot as of late however as Sri Lankan supporters are recapturing their pride as a solid cricketing country under new mentor Chandika Hathurusingha. 

While a general store specialist, Abeywardebe Harsha, sat tight to purchase a ticket for the opening session of the Nidahas Trophy amongst India and Sri Lanka today, he portrayed how the energy for cricket in Sri Lanka changed after some time. 

"There was a period when cricket in Sri Lanka achieved its pinnacle and we [supporters] had the inclination that we won't be beaten by any side on the planet. Be that as it may, things changed after the retirement of Sanga [Sangakkara] and Mahela. The annihilation against Bangladesh [in March-April keep going year] on home soil was something we never anticipated. You realize that is on the grounds that you have our man Chandi [Chandika Hathurusingha] as your mentor yet now we have your mentor," Harsha said with a grin yesterday outside the R Premadasa Stadium ticket office. 

Then, another fan Balasingham Anton, a taxi driver who held up outside the stadium just to get a look at the Sri Lankan cricketers, said that he trusts Sri Lanka will indeed turn into the main group on the planet, that too inside the following a few years. 

"You need to concede that we are in a progress period where our young players require some an opportunity to end up experienced and begin giving an extreme battle to any group. The enthusiasm for cricket [in Sri Lanka] has never been as awesome as we find in India or even Bangladesh however we do love the diversion and it isn't so much that distant when we will by and by manage the cricketing scene," Anton said with extraordinary certainty.