Women’s ODI World Cup 2025: Sri Lanka coach Ratnayake downplays scheduling woes despite slew of washouts
After New Zealand captain Sophie Devine slammed rain-hit Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 scheduling, Sri Lanka head coach Rumesh Ratnayake downplayed the issue, saying that there has been a ‘level playing field’ for all teams.
After the White Ferns’ game against Pakistan was washed out on Saturday, a dejected Devine said that given the weather forecast in Colombo, the match could have been started earlier in the day.
However, having witnessed a similar fate where two of its home games were abandoned, the Sri Lanka coach said, “Well, not only us, so many teams have gone through that. It’s (up) to the organisers to work on another World Cup in the future, it’s a thought which they would have for sure, and sort out something like that. But they’ve had everybody on the same level (playing) field.
Ratnayake, however, did not want to blame the team’s poor show on the weather. “Things haven’t gone well, and you can blame the weather, but I don’t like to give an excuse as to what we cannot control. There have been good periods of ours, especially that New Zealand game, where we saw some good batting in it, and we [would] like to put it together and hopefully get it right in tomorrow’s game also,” the coach added.
Published on Oct 19, 2025
