Lanka T10 League might solve SL’s power-hitting issues

By Harsha Amarasinghe   

The Lanka T10 League that was launched on Sunday (20) could help cricket in Sri Lanka in so many different ways.   

The President of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Shammi Silva clearly stated that his institution will not do ‘anything without financial gains’ which pretty much says it all about how they operate and given how the SLC has been managed in the last few years, one has to say in terms of handling the finances they have done reasonable job.   
Likewise, one has to think that SLC would be able to generate quite a bit of revenue out of this new T10 League as well. To be fair to SLC, they have done really well in terms of supporting other sports in the country having distributed prizes for athletes and netball players.   

SLC may still have a long way to go to match the levels of BCCI and ECB, but at least in Sri Lanka they are financially stable. Probably more stable that the government of Sri Lanka.   
On the other hand, T10 cricket is all about smashing it out of the ground, something Sri Lanka has struggled to do in the recent past amid the success in the Asia Cup.   
Sri Lanka appears to still believe that in T20 Cricket you have to start cautiously and accelerate later on in the innings which clearly does not seem to be the case at least in some conditions.   
Most of the teams such as England, New Zealand and Australia have deployed the theory of attacking bowlers from the outset leaving nothing for the end. This way they have been able to put the pressure on the opponents throughout the game and it certainly paid off for Jos Buttler and tbe boys as they lifted the T2O World Cup earlier this month.   
Sri Lanka batters in particular will be able to take more risks and bat more freely in this format which will certainly improve their big hitting ability and that will come handy when they approach T20 Cricket at international level.   
Further, there will be four female teams as well playing franchise cricket in Sri Lanka which will be a huge boost for women’s cricket in Sri Lanka.   
Over the last few years Sri Lanka women’s team had very little success and they also were given very little support by the governing body in terms of organizing top level tournaments. But this will certainly help Chamari Atapattu and co.