T20 World Cup: Maheesh Theekshana recovers from aspect pressure as Sri Lanka look to focus on Australia with spin

Spinner Maheesh Theekshana has recovered from harm in time for Thursday’s Twenty20 World Cup conflict towards Australia, Sri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur stated, hopeful that the teen can exploit the opposition’s weak spot towards the turning ball.

Theekshana, 21, who missed the win towards Bangladesh as a result of a aspect pressure, made his worldwide debut solely final month however has shortly established himself as a much-feared thriller bowler, drawing comparisons with former Lankan spinner Ajantha Mendis.”Maheesh will be playing tomorrow, if everything goes well. We’ve rested him from training yesterday. He’s improved tremendously,” Arthur instructed reporters.Spin proved to be Australia’s undoing within the 4-1 sequence defeat by Bangladesh in August, with the vacationers struggling on pitches not too dissimilar from those seen within the United Arab Emirates to this point.”He (Theekshana) is a quality bowler. I think we’ve also got to — he’s a mystery bowler… tactically we do study our opposition. We obviously have studied Australia,” stated Arthur.”We had a series not so long ago when I was with Pakistan here against them where we did use spin quite successfully. So hopefully that works. If you haven’t seen Maheesh, he certainly poses some questions.””He has a couple of different balls that do make you quite hesitant if you can’t pick them. So, look, it will be an interesting contest tomorrow.”Australia scraped previous South Africa of their opener on the weekend, with a win for both aspect on Thursday more likely to be essential within the race for the semi-finals.Arthur added that his workforce didn’t have a lot to lose after popping out unscathed within the qualifiers and that they have been assured of beating anybody on their day.”The players have been outstanding. And we just are improving. For us, it’s about our journey. It’s not a sprint… the qualifiers were tough. There was a lot of pressure on us there. Now the pressure is reversed,” he stated.The coach was stuffed with reward for Charith Asalanka, whose very good knock led the way in which towards Bangladesh.”To see Charith’s development has been incredible. I remember him arriving in our bubble just before we went to England… and to see Charith’s journey from England to where he is now is a credit to himself,” Arthur added.