Kolkata,
\nSri Lanka\u2019s left-handed opener Dimuth Karunaratne is willing to adapt to the situation in an attempt to counter spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in the three-match Test series against India.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Jadeja and Ashwin are both hungry for wickets. Every time they bowl it\u2019s about sticking to the basics,\u201d Karunaratne said. \u201cIf I don\u2019t give them any chance, they will try to do something extra. If we have to force them to change the field, we have to do something extra. That\u2019s my gameplan… I wait for the loose ones and I will stick to that. If it does not work I will think differently and put some extra pressure on the bowlers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Karunaratne, who made a career-best 196 against Pakistan in Dubai last month, said his knock of 141 against India in the second innings of the second Test in August was a confidence-booster. \u201cThat hundred helped me a lot to take confidence against Pakistan. It was not easy wicket to bat in the second innings,\u201d said the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was determined to get some runs, especially against Ashwin. I was thinking to play the first five overs without big shots. I played a lot of sweeps and reverse sweeps and they had to change the field. That\u2019s my style, to play in my comfort zone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata, Sri Lanka\u2019s left-handed opener Dimuth Karunaratne is willing to adapt to the situation in an attempt to counter spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in the three-match Test series against India. \u201cI know Jadeja and Ashwin are both hungry for wickets. Every time they bowl it\u2019s about sticking to the basics,\u201d Karunaratne said. \u201cIf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9978,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions\/9978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}