In my opinion a bowler should not need to know English, because his responsibility is to bowl well, not to show that he can speak in English. Someone can translate what he says into Sinhala as Mahela did at that One Day International.

Even when international pageants are held, the contestants speak their mother language, if he or she doesn’t know English and there is a translator. But only in Sri Lanka, people think that when you go out into the world, you need to speak English; it is a ‘must’ and you have to speak better English, otherwise people will laugh at you. If we know and if we can speak in English, it will help us to be on par with the modern world, but if you cannot speak in English, it cannot be a disgrace or a shame, because it is our second language.

Before knowing English, you should know your mother tongue, Sinhala.