Sri Lanka Cries Over Cricket Defeat

Backpacking Sri Lanka  & The Cricket T20

Anybody backpacking Sri Lanka at the moment will be having a really interesting experience!  Power cuts, Scorching heat and the T20 Cricket world cup are gripping the nation.

 Exceptionally high temperatures continue to boil us, causing dehydration, headaches and extreme exhaustion and making any kind of travelling down right uncomfortable. Add to that power cuts across the country depriving people of much needed air conditioning, small guest houses/hotels without back up generators are to hot to sleep in and some restaurants are having to close. Those restaurants and bars that remain open are hyped up with cricket fever.

If you were BACKPACKING in Negombo last night would have seen the huge screens set up for the T20 match that was between West Indies and Sri Lanka. Although Sri Lanka are the defending champions, for some strange reason the Sri Lankan team are calling themselves the under dogs and not the defending champions. Why?

Sri Lanka Thrashed by Windies

Whatever, they choose to call themselves the fact is they got absolutely THRASHED by the west Indies who didn't even use their star player Chris Gayle in their batting side. His absence was really missed by the crowds who screamed and shouted for him to come on the pitch unaware he had an injury and wasn't going to play unless needed. Instead Fletcher came on and thumped a few for 6 and 4.

Sri Lankans Cry in their Extra Strong Beer

Sri Lanka were crappy fielding and didn't have luck on their side, as a result they were demolished and the Sri Lankans wept as their dreams of remaining the champions faded. Many Sri Lankans are still crying in their lion lager over the dismissal of Dilshan claiming it was definitely a bad call, sorry guys but I think it was fair, whats more if you are relying on just one man to put you through to the finals  and you can't catch the ball then you really aren't a championship team.

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