Tri-Series: Time for teams to rediscover themselves

In a recent article, Ian Chappell said, about the fake World Championship that gonna decide who are the No.1 Test side in the world, referring to the series between, South Africa vs India, and Australia vs South Africa, where presently the three teams are in Top 3 Test Rankings.

That sounds very interesting and likely gonna be it. But there is a Tri-Series that gonna start in a few days, in Bangladesh between Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh. It may not be about who is the best in the world nor come close to it, but it has some significance to it, with the three teams are in a situation where they have to rediscover themselves.

Each of these teams going through some phase accordingly, where there is a lot going on the coach and players Sega, and Coach and management Sega.

Since their win in 1996 World Cup, Sri Lankan team haven't seen a significant low point as of now, as they were finding it difficult to maintain standards as of the previous eras did.  They were not good in the field as they would be, but the things from management side aren't helping them either in a crisis. The difference in option between Coach and management led to the resignation of Graham Ford.

Bangladesh in another spectrum, found their feet in international cricket during the 2015 World Cup and followed it, with consecutive Series wins against top sides was an inspiring story. But things changed a lot as they couldn't show the grit when they have traveled in overseas conditions more than the losses the manner of losses impacted them more than anything else. While with their Captain and Coach aren't on the same page led to Hathurusingha resignation.

Meanwhile, Zimbabwe is a Team that prevailed to have a world class side in late 1990’s but it was not the case after few years as political tensions overshadowed Cricket. Still, it's the case with Zimbabwe as they find unstable financially and politics in selection policy.

But their recent Series win against Sri Lanka in Sri  Lanka raised hopes, alongside the return of Brendon Taylor and Kyle Jarvis from County Cricket.

It's time for these three teams to re-establish themselves in World Cricket, for Sri Lanka it's about bringing back their old glory, to do that, they need to show dominance against other two teams, and it has to be Now for the Islanders as they re-appoint Mathews as the captain and more to that Hathurusingha taken the reign from Pothas.

While it's interesting to see how Bangladesh responds to the challenge without Hathurusingha, who was clinical to their upward curve from World Cup 2015 at home. The question is that, will they show the same character?

For Zimbabwe too, it's the same question, will they continue the form they showed in Sri Lanka ? will Taylor and Jarvis ride Zimbabwe to a different level?

Adding to their own self-questioning, there is another plot to these three teams, to make the scoreline clear and it's Sri Lanka, who have to do it, as they lost Test to Bangladesh in Sri Lanka and hadn't won the ODI or the T20I Series followed. While with Zimbabwe, it's even more as they lost ODI Series, in turn, led to their low point in the history of Sri Lankan Cricket.

Although Zimbabwe won the ODI Series against Sri Lanka they lost to Bangladesh in 2016, and in 2017 they lost to Afghanistan at home and away. So they too, have to set the scoreline clear with Bangladesh. So the Tri-Series between the nation's Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh not only have the chance to rediscover themselves but also gives the chance to set the past score lines clear.