Tillakaratne Dilshan rues England series that got away

MANCHESTER, England: Sri Lanka skipper Tillakaratne Dilshan was left reflecting on what might have been after a tense 16-run defeat at Old Trafford condemned his side to a 3-2 one-day series defeat by England.
The World Cup finalists had been 2-1 after convincing wins at Headingley and Lord’s but suffered a 10-wicket thrashing at Trent Bridge on Wednesday before losing a much closer contest at Old Trafford on Saturday.
“In the last two months we’ve played some good cricket,” said Dilshan. “We lost the Test series in one hour and again in this one-day series lost three matches in about the first six overs of our batting. I think we can be a much better side than that,” added the captain, who in March was a member of the Sri Lanka side that thrashed England by 10 wickets in a World Cup quarter-final in Colombo.

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