Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene said Monday there was no need to panic following the team's repeated batting failures in recent One-Day Internationals. “What we have to remember is that all these guys have made a lot of runs in the past,” said Jayawardene. “Everyone takes responsibility for the failure and it is now a question of making right decisions.” World Cup runner-up Sri Lanka lost 3-2 to England in a home one-day series in October, and last month failed to qualify for the finals of a triangular tournament in Australia won by India. Jayawardene said the batsmen had been working hard to regain form and there was no need to make major changes ahead of the upcoming tour of the West Indies. Sri Lanka will play two Tests and three One-Day Internationals on the tour starting on March 17. Sri Lanka Cricket chief Arjuna Ranatunga echoed those sentiments, saying that he was not “too much worried” about the team's performance in Australia. “We should move on and have the team ready for the next World Cup,” said Ranatunga, captain of the 1996 World Cup-winning squad. The next World Cup will be jointly hosted by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in 2011.Pakistan tour decision Cricket Australia said Monday a decision on whether the national team will tour Pakistan later this month is expected to be made by the end of the week. Cricket Australia chairman Creagh O'Connor and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) counterpart Nasim Ashraf are scheduled to have a talk by telephone this week to discuss the situation with the tour considered in major doubt. “The next step will be the phone conversation - we are waiting for that to take place,” the Australian body's spokesman Peter Young said Monday. Australian players have expressed reservations over the security situation in Pakistan following a spate of suicide bombings. “Clearly the clock is ticking and there is a sense of expectation where we will reach a point certainly no later than this week on working out exactly what is happening,” Young said. The proposed tour has been compressed into a month, starting on March 29, and PCB officials have said they are against moving Australia's tour outside of Pakistan because of its long-term impact on cricket in the country. The Australian team has not played in Pakistan for a decade. In 2002 a series that was scheduled for Pakistan was shifted to Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates. The PCB has promised to provide extra security for the Australian players. Cricket officials met with Australia's foreign ministry in Canberra last week to get the latest updates on the situation inside Pakistan before making their tour decision. __
