Sri Lankan captain Dinesh Chandimal said on Tuesday that witchcraft helped them win. He told reporters he had received special blessings from a meyni, or sorcerer in UAE.
“"I am always ready to accept the blessings of anyone -- whether it is a meyni or any clergy," Chandimal said in Colombo.
Sri Lanka won the Test series against Pakistan 2-0 but lost bot ODI (0-5) and Twenty20 (0-3).
Chandimal, who scored 155 in the first test match, told reporters, “You can have talent, but without this blessing you cannot move forward.”
A week before this statement, Sri Lanka’s sports minister had denied ordering the team to use witchcraft ahead of the Test series.
Chandimal told that the sorcerer consulted was the mother of a friend. Sri Lankan fans mocked at the national captain on twitter calling the sorcerer a fraud.
