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Summary Mahinda Rajapakse urged the cricket team to do better next time.
The representatives from Sri Lankan government and fans welcomed its cricketers warmly at the Bandaranaike international airport in Colombo.Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse consoled Kumar Sangakkara after his team lost the cricket World Cup to India.We can be proud of the team and Sri Lanka will stand by them to move forward, the president was quoted as saying in a message to the team who returned Sunday after Saturdays defeat in India.The president thanked them for taking Sri Lanka to the World Cup finals, where India beat them by six wickets. Rajapakse had earlier asked the team to win the championship as a tribute to star spinner Muttiah Muralitharan who retired from international cricket at the end of the 2011 World Cup.
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