Sri Lanka skipper Charith Asalanka desires his team to be more consistent with white-ball cricket. After winning three consecutive one-day home series, the Lankan Lions are set to host New Zealand for a two-match T20I series, starting November 9. Ahead of that, the skipper talks about his aspiration of being more consistent and climbing up the rankings ladder. In all, Sri Lanka are now eighth on the list and he plans to take the team to number three. The 27-year-old underlined the success that Sri Lanka enjoyed in and before 2014 and wants to bring back his team to the glory days. He spoke on the importance of being a consistent team and noted that if they manage to keep up with the game, they won't be exposed in ICC tournaments in the future. Here is what Asalanka told to ESPN “We need to climb up the rankings, because that shows we've been consistently winning. Our goal is is to climb to the top three in the rankings. If we've consistently been winning, when we go to the ICC tournaments, we won't get exposed,” “We'd have played good teams and won like we used to do in 2014 and before, when we used to get to the semi-finals easily. We are hoping to come back to that level. It's important to play really well from tour to tour,” he added. Also Read | Watch: MS Dhoni Spending Quality Time with Family in Thailand At the same time, injuries and unavailability of some players give Sri Lanka enough scope to try some new faces over the last couple of months. Of them, Janith Liyanage and Nishan Madushka stood out, but they remain ignored for the T20I series against New Zealand. Speaking on the same, Asalanka stated that the idea is to play the best XI but he is happy how others have chipped in from time to time. “We're hoping to play our best XI all the time. That's how our bench strength improves as well, because they then know how well you have to play to get a spot in that XI. And the players in the XI also fight for their own places. I think we've improved that situation recently. Hopefully, we can develop 15/16 really strong players over the course of a year,” Asalanka said.