I always thought What Clive Lloyd is for windies ranatunga was for Lankans. He has many stories to tell like supporting murali, making jayasuriya and kaluwitharana as openers, building an attacking strategy, chasing and winning matches, grooming stars like jayawardene and sangakkara, those overseas tours with less money for meet the ends etc. I hope a docuseries comes out of these stories. Though these are known it's always special when it comes out from original masters.

@@coolbrowser2008 he has a case for ICC Hall of fame.

I am from Kashmir and I say that Ranatunga was the architect of Sri Lankan golden cricket

@@deepankarnakarmi8215 definitely.

It is a understatement,Since the days I knew,Sri Lanka was just a below average team.It was under Ranatunga, that players like Kalu, Jayasuriya,Murali ,Vaas all prospered and all of a sudden in 1996 WC these guys became monsters. They blew England,India,Australia to win the trophy.

Beautifully stated..luv it.. When watching semifinals in 1996 I kept asking my mom if I could stay home to watch the match without going for maths classes. she was almost going to agree and in quick fire we lost Kalu n Sana in two consecutive balls. I literally lost my appetite and fetched my books by default and rode my chopper to classes with a heavy heart. Then I got back home to see we were topping the scoreboard to a formidable score to a fightback that would live in our hearts forever and Yes, Eden Gardens went up in flames that night. Glory days ❤️

@@mariorajanayagam1176 please don't say that about Eden Gardens. It was our beloved stadium and you not only destroyed it but cursed it beyond any measure. Venkatesh Prasad still takes sleeping pills to get over his headaches.

@@summbart5394 Prasad was not part of that match You FOOL

😢those days golden 🥇🪙 Antenna 📡 was only source of tv blurred some had mini portable which used to blurr a Lott then no cable TVs

Magnificent comment dear. Nobody will ever forget that day at the Basin Reserve.

By a country mile

Chaminda Vaas

And best fielder T. M. Dilshan

Absolutely. D Silva is d number one batsman of Srilnaka. They who watched him play know how great he used to be in big games.

@@julieshyju2014 choice varies man to man. I have watched both D silva and Jaysurya since 96 and D silva has impressed me more and if u see experts's opinions, u can see they also prefer d silva and once d silva was compared even to Sachin but Jaysurya can never be compared to Sachin. But saying again, choice varies man to man.

@@julieshyju2014 I said earlier choice varies man to man . I like D silva more than Jaysurya.

@@julieshyju2014 jayasuriya only a slogger. But silva is a class player who can change gears.

National cricketers are derived from their particular society and as such, reflect the values that underpins such societies. Sadly, our modern Cricketers will only reflect the society of today and the values of today's culture. I hold little hope we will encounter a man approaching the calibre of Arjuna Ranatunga again.

Not all.... 1990 Australia,pakistan, west indies were best teams...( 1994 windies downfall started ) New powerhouse of cricket appear.. South africa suddenly became strong force as soon as they qualify again to play international cricket..... Pakistan was strong team and win against them for us( indians )like diwali festival which came once in year.... We enjoy those days

still not finish that game will be back 2023...

He was speaking about the rule change. Before this the winner was decided based on how less wickets one has lost....

Before any tournament rules of the game will be set and communicated to all. The rules in 1992 were different compared to the rules in 2019.

But for this match Dsilva was captain

It was proved later on n he (Sanath U Jayasuriya) became an international cricket star in late 90's.

What do you expect he is a South African? All overrated chockers

Rakim Cornwall is heavier

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Sanath Jayasuriya initially being a bowler (left arm orthodox) who could bat a bit is nothing but a myth. Certain people who had followed only the international games (Tests and ODIs) in early-to-mid '90s may tend to think so, mainly because of the fact that his first genuine match-winning performance representing Sri Lanka at the highest level came as a bowler when he took 6 wickets for 29 in an ODI against the touring Englishmen at Moratuwa in '93. However, it had been more of an experiment by then in order to utilize his skills as a decent utility bowler too, nothing more. But the fact that he had taken only a handful of wickets in the first class games up until that ODI, and had been used as a bowler only occasionally too, shows that he had been a specialist batsman from the very beginning who unfortunately couldn't secure a top order slot initially primarily due to the settled seniors like Roshan Mahanama, Asanka Gurusinghe, Aravinda De Silva, Arjuna Ranathunga, Hashan Tillakaratne, etc. who had been representing Sri Lanka then. Despite the slot no.07 granted to him initially in the Sri Lanka XI, Jayasuriya came into the side in 1989/90 having scored 2 double hundreds & another hundred too in Pakistan representing Sri Lanka Second XI (which was then known as Sri Lanka B team, not A team ...) against Pakistan Second XI. Then he made a couple of hundreds captaining Sri Lanka Under 24 side in South Africa in '92/'93, scored another 150+ too against the touring Indians in '93 at the Welagedara stadium in Kurunegala representing Sri Lanka Board President's XI. In the meantime, he had scored a few quickfire half-centuries too in the limited opportunities he had got in Test Cricket despite his record in ODIs being relatively poor as a batsman, until he was promoted to no.3 in late '93 in an ODI held against Pakistan in Sharjah when Sri Lanka were chasing 300+. Sri Lanka lost that game with a big margin, still Jayasuriya managed to score almost a run-a-ball 50+ against the strong Pakistani attack which consisted the likes of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, etc.. Another even more quickfire 60+ followed in the subsequent game too against the same opponent (which happened to be Abdul Qadir's final appearance on the internationa stage.), thus justifying his inclusion as an attacking batsman at the top-order .... This had been almost 2 years prior to the arrival of Dev Whatmore as the coach, and T.B. Kehelgamuwa had been the team/Cricket manager for the tour .... Even then, the selectors and the team management were quite skeptical on making him an automatic choice for the Tests too. His solid 180 against SSC in the finals of Sarawanamuththu trophy '95, and his subsequent hundred in the 3rd Test against Australia in early '96 only a few weeks before the Worldcup '96, eventually helped him securing his deserving place in Tests too starting from '96. It's only after this that he caught the attention of the most followers of the game as an attacking batsman at the top representing Sri Lanka in both formats; Tests and ODIs ....

@@kasunekneligoda2354 what nonsense. He was an established batsman when he came to SL team. To date he is the only U-19 player to score a double century against Pakistan in Pakistan way back in the 80s. Arjuna and Whatmore experimented with him in 95 Australian tour knowing well that he is unorthodox

@@kasunekneligoda2354 initially Jayasuriya and mahanama, if I remember correctly Asia Cup 1995, Sharjah series 1995. In mid of Australian trination series 1995-96, they sent Kalu with Jayasuriya

When they came to India before the wc as part of maiden international cricket return they played very well and lost 1-2. First 2 Odis they lost and third one they chased a big total of the time (shastri and manjrekar scored 100) and did much better than touring teams. This is because they had exposure to county cricket (example Clive rice) and lot of players played in rebel tours. Personally wasn't surprised them beating top teams in that time. Teams expected them to be minnows like zimbabwe and they turned out to be much formidable. In the first match against India Donald bowled a big inswinger to Sachin on his way to five for.

@@coolbrowser2008 yes Bro I am aware of these stats ♥♥♥♥