{"id":163460,"date":"2025-09-27T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163460\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:08:09","slug":"arnold-right-call-not-to-send-nissanka-in-super-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163460\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold: Right call not to send Nissanka in Super Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-204459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_20250927_021458_WhatsApp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Asia Cup campaign came to an early end after three consecutive defeats in the Super Four stage, despite winning all three Group B games.<\/p>\n<p>Former Sri Lanka cricketer Russel Arnold, speaking to Newswire, said the turning point came after the opening defeat to Bangladesh. \u201cOnce that first game was lost, our outlook and intensity shifted. But watching Pathum Nissanka and the team fight today shows that this team has ability. The question is how we maintain that consistency,\u201d Arnold said.<\/p>\n<p>Arnold highlighted Sri Lanka\u2019s recurring challenge of handling pressure situations. \u201cWe win a lot of dead rubbers. When there\u2019s no pressure, we play our shots freely. But once the stakes are high, dot balls creep in, batters panic, and the mindset changes. That is where we need polish. Against bowlers like Kuldeep Yadav and Varun Chakravarthy, you can\u2019t afford to lose focus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Sanath Jayasuriya revealed at the post-match press conference that Nissanka played through a groin and hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>On Nissanka\u2019s innings under those conditions, Arnold drew comparisons with Glenn Maxwell\u2019s injured double hundred against Afghanistan. \u201cEven with a niggle, Pathum played some outstanding shots. It reminded me of Maxwell playing through pain. He trusted his base, timed the ball well, and showed the freedom that comes when a batter backs his skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arnold also defended the team\u2019s call to leave Nissanka out of the Super Over. \u201cThat was the right decision. He had batted long with an injury, and physically and mentally it would have been too much to expect him to walk straight back out for such a high-pressure moment,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Arnold urged Sri Lanka to focus on fine-tuning rather than wholesale changes. \u201cOur best players are here. It\u2019s not about massive shake-ups. It\u2019s the little things \u2014 the missed fields, the pressure management, giving the strike to the set batter \u2014 that make the difference between winning and losing. Fix those, and this team will compete consistently against the best.\u201d (Newswire)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cInjury \u0d91\u0d9a\u0dad\u0dca \u0d91\u0d9a\u0dca\u0d9a \u0db4\u0dd0\u0dad\u0dd4\u0db8\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dda \u0dc4\u0ddc\u0db3 \u0dc2\u0ddd\u0da7\u0dca \u0d91\u0dc5\u0dd2\u0dba\u0da7 \u0d86\u0dc0\u0dcf. \u0db8\u0db8\u0dad\u0dca \u0db4\u0dd0\u0dad\u0dd4\u0db8\u0dca\u0dc0 Super Over \u0d91\u0d9a\u0da7 \u0db6\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dca \u0d9a\u0dbb\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0dba\u0dc0\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1\u0dda \u0db1\u0dd0\u0dc4\u0dd0.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RusselArnold69?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@RusselArnold69<\/a> breaks down what went wrong for Sri Lanka in the Super Over thriller vs India and their Asia Cup campaign \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\udfcf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PSuisZGkML\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PSuisZGkML<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NewsWire \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf0 (@NewsWireLK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsWireLK\/status\/1971706407952261339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Asia Cup campaign came to an early end after three consecutive defeats in the Super Four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-163460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}