‘No good dancers in SL cricket team’

15 June 2012 10:01 am Views - 11083

Former Cricket Captain Sanath Jayasuriya said that there are no good dancers in the present Sri Lankan cricket team and that his contemporaries back home had a mixed reaction to his decision to participate in a reality dancing show in India.

In an interview with IANS Jayasuriya said "My contemporaries are surprised because I am a person of a different kind. And when I say yes to these things, they get little surprised. They have mixed feelings. So some comments were good, some weren't good, and so I was a bit worried too," he said, adding that he is undeterred by such reactions.

"I am not nervous. I am just not a good dancer, and so it will take a little time to get into my system. I feel I am stepping into something which is not in my comfort zone. But as a human being, one should try new things. As long as it is not affecting my future career, I am fine with new things," he added.

"First, I need to see what kind of dancing I will need to do because we have a culture, we have some kind of a system in our country. We are more conservative people," he said, adding that his people viewed him as a cricketer.

"Now when I am involved with these things (dancing), they are looking at me differently. So I need to be very careful."

Jayasuriya is appearing as a contestant on the dance reality show "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa".