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Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan has thought his country's cricketing opportunity dishonesty in the hands of the fast bowlers.
"In the past 20 years or so, we have depended on the spin of (Muttiah) Muralitharan for our achievement," said Dilshan previous to the team left for the UAE to meet Pakistan in a series of three Tests, five one-day internationals and a one-off twenty20 international.
"Murali is a bowler who can take six to eight wickets in an innings - we have still not found anyone who can do it as constantly as him," added Dilshan.
"The future for our achievement lies with our fast bowlers. In the spin part, only Rangana Herath has proved himself a top quality bowler. If we hope to win Test matches, we will have to have the carry of the other spinners as well," he said
Sri Lanka suffer a blow when one of their most hopeful young fast bowlers, Shaminda Eranga, was lined out of the tour with a carry injury.
Dilshan said he was not concerned that Sri Lanka had yet to record a Test win in their last 11 matches since the retirement of Muralitharan, who broken his career with a world record pull of 800 Test wickets last year.
"We have lost two matches and strained nine and that is not a bad record," said Dilshan.
"We lost the two Tests to very good sides - England and Australia - one of them was due to a poor batting presentation at Cardiff and in the other at Galle, the toss played a vital role.
"If you seem back on the rest of our performance, I am quite fulfilled," he added.
Dilshan said that he was sure his team would be able to end their win lack in UAE.
"Pakistan has a combination of knowledgeable and young talent in their line-up. I think we can take on that challenge and hit them," said Dilshan.
Since attractive as captain from Kumar Sangakkara, Dilshan played under Australian Stuart Law as temporary coach for the tour to England and former Sri Lanka fast bowler Rumesh Ratnayake in the new home series against Australia.
Sri Lanka has since chosen Australian Geoff Marsh on a two-year contract.
"Marsh is contracted for two years and he is an appreciated player and coach and I hope we can build on a good partnership and carry Sri Lanka cricket onward," said Dilshan.
He added: "His existence wills assistance a lot of youngsters and we can get a lot out of him to expand our cricket. While working jointly only we can find shortcoming and overcome them."
The first Test next to Pakistan starts in Abu Dhabi on October 18.
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