Sri Lanka have lost six out of the eight One-Day Internationals that they have played this year.
The Sri Lankan captain is happy to enter the tournament as 'the underdogs'.
"All the teams are quite even, I think in the past few months we have had a few lapses here and there. Nobody will give us a chance, to be really honest, but we are happy to enter the tournament as underdogs," Mathews said in his pre-tournament presseron Thursday(May 25).