Twenty-20 World Cup left us with a usual anecdote that justice should prevail for anything good to take place in society. Depriving veteran batsman Samantha Indika de Saram in the recent T20 World Cup kept cricket loving fans heartbroken.

He needed an opportunity to show his skills in Twenty-20 cricket because he was a right-handed batsman who was consistent and had an average in Twenty-20 cricket that was better than that of Jehan Mubarak and Chamara Silva who were fortunate to feature in the above tourney.

The statistics in the box will illumine the cricket lovers what justice really could have been.

A slim yet powerful batsman who has a sound technique, de Saram stepped into the National side in 1999-2000 tour of Zimbabwe.

However, he languished at No.6 or 7 in the order and was never really given an opportunity to show his full potential. He was educated at St. Thomas’ College in Matara and was one of the most consistent scorers in the domestic scene that time.

No cricket lover could forget or ignore his school’s career-best knock of 304 runs made in just 149 balls inclusive of 25 sixes and 19 fours at the Uyanwatte Stadium against Sri Devananda College, Ambalangoda.

He was a regular player at club level before he was chosen for the National team. He was then dropped from the side in 2001 and eight years later, made a comeback when he was included in the Twenty-20 squad against touring Indians and later for the ICC World Twenty-20 in England. He was sidelined there and made to warm the bench.

Twenty-20 World Cup is over now with lots of controversies as Sri Lanka was outplayed by resurgent Pakistanis in the final. Any final is exciting and the luckiest team on that day most often goes on to win.

The knock of Sri Lanka Captain Kumar Sangakkara showed his maturity. His leadership throughout the tournament was highly commendable and it also heightened the team spirit of the National side.

The consistency of batting in Mubarak and Chamara Silva, though, never was there during the entire tournament and they were flops in a winning combination. The winning spree of Sri Lanka team though survived the duo’s Achilles heel.

The problem occurred when defeat came to Sri Lanka in the final against Pakistan as Sri Lanka faced an utter failure in their batting order as wickets fell in procession. Nobody in the team could hide the error done in the final selection as Mubarak and Chamara did nothing in the hour of need.

They exposed their inability greatly. It is of course regrettable that there are no more capable players than this duo. The country actually HAS better players who can fire at the time they are required to do so. I.e.: Ferveez Maharoof (all-rounder), Nuwan Kulasekara (bowling all-rounder) and de Saram, who is ahead of both Chamara and Mubarak in the domestic Twenty-20 batting averages.

Sri Lanka military forces showed us the real sense of the words "justice prevails till the end and nobody can let down even if hypocrisy comes in its way." It is in fact necessary that ‘sudussata sudusu thena’ (right person to be given the right place).