Sri Lanka's Maheesh Theekshana on their thrashing of England at the Cricket World Cup

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Sri Lanka's Maheesh Theekshana on their thrashing of England at the ICC Cricket World Cup

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00:00 And please ensure that your phones are muted or on vibrate.

00:03 And please do not speak loud or in the stream

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00:06 So thank you.

00:08 Thank you.

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03:18 Last question.

03:19 Let's start with the team one, Chris.

03:22 Mahesh, until this game, Sri Lanka's bowlers

03:25 did not have a great World Cup.

03:26 But the batters had done well.

03:28 So going into a game like this against a team like this

03:30 in a venue like this, what was the talk like?

03:32 And just talk about how you guys executed the middle over

03:37 bowling, because that is where you got it very tight there.

03:40 Actually, our plan was because the first four games,

03:43 we didn't bowl well in the middle overs.

03:45 And the last game was in the Netherlands,

03:47 we bowled well with the new board.

03:49 So I think we lost the three games as well because

03:53 of our bowling.

03:54 And we did actually do some practice sessions

03:58 to get more discipline.

04:00 All the fast bowlers did their hard work before the game day,

04:04 so they know what they have to do in the game.

04:06 So we just back our strength.

04:08 We just went for the simple plan, just bowling discipline,

04:12 then we can get the success.

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04:15 Last question for you.

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04:58 Our last question.

05:00 You've absolutely thrashed the defending world champions

05:03 and all but knocked them out of the tournament in a way.

05:08 Did you sense before going into this game

05:12 that England were really vulnerable?

05:14 And does it shock you to see just how much they've

05:18 been defeated by everyone?

05:20 I think they underestimate our team

05:22 because we also lost three games and we only

05:25 won against the Netherlands.

05:27 I think they underestimate us.

05:29 That's why the result went our way

05:32 because we backed our strength.

05:34 We went like simple plan.

05:36 So that's why we won the game today.

05:40 Perfect, thank you very much everyone.

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