Experienced player Angelo Mathews returned to the Sri Lanka T20 team after a long time and played a valuable inning of 46 runs in 38 balls in the first T20 match against Zimbabwe and played an important role in his team’s victory.

Let us tell you, to win this match, Sri Lanka needed 144 runs and they won the match on the last ball. Other players from Sri Lanka performed very well in this match. The hosts defeated Zimbabwe by three wickets.

However, after the match was over, Angelo Mathews made a big statement regarding the selection panel of the Sri Lankan team. He said that the selection panels discuss the agenda before taking the decision and then present their views. With this, today we will tell you about three controversial statements of Angelo Mathews which were much discussed.

1- Angelo Mathews’ statement on ‘unruly players’

During Sri Lanka’s tour of New Zealand in 2016, captain Angelo Mathews had said about his teammates who were accused of misbehavior that he would not show any mercy to them and would be firm on whatever decision would be taken. The Sports Minister of Sri Lanka had expressed concern about the fact that drug addiction has increased a lot within the team and nothing good is going on in the team due to internal disputes.

Matthews confirmed that an official investigation had been launched into the players’ late partying until 3 or 4 a.m. and tensions within the team and others, including interim coach Jerome Jayaratne.

Angelo Mathews had given the statement that, ‘I can neither confirm this nor say that this is all false news. But I can say from my side that whichever player is found guilty, strictest action will be taken against him.