The Sri Lankan batsmen were also playing strokes who attacked them to a large extent.
“Shot was a serious problem with selection -with the conditions handled,” Jayasuria said. “I don’t think some players have handled the situation well. They are experienced players, and they will have to be more mature.
“These players have played a lot of cricket and they should know how to play. I have talked to them about it. But we have to talk about it in detail now. Also, we cannot blame the wicket. And saw how the wicket was treated.
Problem, Jaisuria said, the batsmen are not converting their debut into a big score. In Australia’s first innings of the first Test in Galle, six batsmen faced 50 balls or more. In Sri Lanka’s first innings, only Dinesh Chandimal faced more than 50 balls.
“The biggest problem is that the batsmen who are making a start, but are not going to play a long innings,” Jayasuria said. “This is something that I always hum. We saw [Usman] Khwaja, [Steven] Smith and [Josh] Illis, all three of them made a good start and they turned them into big hundreds. This should be conversion. We are not consistent in it. Our players should know that these are our conditions and we should use these conditions. There were many opportunities but we did not use them. ,
Australian spinners bowled faster than Sri Lanka, but at that time, Sri Lankan spinners felt that their slow pace is better for this surface.
“They were bowling a little fast with us, but we were thinking that our pace was the best. This is what we are doing. The wicket was slow and we were trying to bowl a little fast, but we are finished We usually do here as bowling.
“After the third or fourth day, we saw the normal wicket. What Australia spinners did was a bit faster than us. What are they usually doing.
“We are using to bowl slowly, but it did not work in this match. We need to discuss them all as well.”
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