Sri Lankan players to abide by SLC decision on IPL: Sangakkara

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara has said that he and his national teammates playing in the Indian Premier League will have to abide by the decision taken by their Cricket Board regarding returning home midway from the Twenty20 league for a tour of England We have a tour of England happening by the end of May I think the Board SLC will start calling us back I am not sure if it is going to be May 5 or not date of returning home Sangakkara the captain of the Deccan Chargers said It is up to the BCCI and SLC to negotiate on this date of return What we as players can do is to abide by the decision of our Board I hope the players would be communicated after a decision is taken by the BCCI and SLC We have to abide by that he said at the postmatch press conference after Deccan Chargers beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 33 runs When asked who he thinks is suitable to replace him as the captain in the Deccan Chargers team Sangakkara said In T20 cricket anyone can replace a player No one is indispensable It is not a great deal Cameron White who is the vicecaptain is also back Moreover there are a lot of other great international and local players in the side Sangakkara described his teams win against the Bangalore outfit as a team effort and said it was a relief that Deccan finally won at home in the IPL It is great to win at home It is relief and joy at last It was a great team effort Everybody contributed to the win Chipli played a brilliant innings Gony and Steyn bowled exactly according to the plan he said Asked about his side breaking the jinx of losing all their IPL matches at home before yesterday Sangakkara said Win is a win and you have to keep on being positive We did just that Heaping praise on Indias Virat Kohli who scored a brilliant 71 from 51 balls in Royal Challengers losing cause Sangakkara said he was on his way to become a very special player Virat is a very good player I think he is on his way to become a very special player Gautam Gambhir and Virat are two excellent players Meanwhile RCB captain Daniel Vettori blamed poor fielding and bowling performance for his sides loss We did not bowl and field well We did not stop 1520 runs while fielding That is unacceptable in Twenty20 cricket We have some good fielders and we should have stopped 1520 runs We let them add these runs he rued At the end because of the mistakes their Deccans total became unassailable said the New Zealander Vettori said the top order batting failure meant that there were no substantial partnerships in RCBs run chase except for the 54 for the sixth wicket between Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara 25 You need quality players for big partnerships Deccan bowled really well and our top order failed to get the start said Vettori Regarding RCBs next match against Chennai Super Kings in Chennai tomorrow Vettori said his team got to win it against one of the best teams in the IPL Chennai Super Kings are a very good side They are one of the best teams in the IPL Now that this game against the Deccan Chargers is over it is over We have to get on with the next game and got to win it said Vettori u00a0