Randiv replaces injured Mathews in Sri Lanka squad
A day ahead of the World Cup final, Sri Lanka have replaced injured allrounder Angelo Mathews with offspinner Suraj Randiv from their 15-member squad. Mathews' absence is a crushing blow for Sri Lanka, since he was a significant presence in the middle order, in addition to being a reliable back-up seamer.
Mathews had left the field during the semi-final against New Zealand with a quadriceps muscle injury when Sri Lanka were fielding, and was visibly hampered for movement when he later came out to bat with a runner. Muttiah Muralitharan was also not in peak physical condition during that game, and the Sri Lankan team management decided to call-up Randiv and veteran seamer Chaminda Vaas as standbys. The pair joined the Sri Lankan team on Thursday evening.
With Mathews not recovering soon enough, Sri Lanka had sought approval from the ICC's technical committee for swapping him with Randiv, and they were given the go-ahead on Friday, less the 24 hours before the final. Randiv was a regular member of Sri Lanka's limited-overs' side last year, but initially missed out on a World Cup spot to Rangana Herath and Ajantha Mendis, who were picked ahead of him as the spinners to support Muralitharan.
Despite struggling with a number of niggles, including injuries to his knee and hamstring, Muralitharan is expected to play in what will be his last international game.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket_worldcup2011/content/current/story/508995.html
හදිසි ආබාධයකට ලක්වූ තුන් ඉරියව් ක්රීඩක ඇන්ජලෝ මැතිව්ස් වෙනුවට පිටදඟ පන්දුයවන සුරාජ් රන්දිව් ක්රීඩා කරන බව අන්තර් ජාතික ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය අද(01) නිවේදනය කර තිබේ.
නවසීලන්තය හා ශ්රී ලංකාව අතර පැවති තරගයේදී ඇන්ජලෝ මැතිව්ස් මාංශ පේශි අබාධයකට ලක්විය.
ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් ඇන්ජලෝ මැතිව්ස් වෙනුවට කණ්ඩායමට ස්ථානගත කිරීමට යෝජනා කළ සුරාජ් රන්දිව් ගේ නම අනුමත කර ඇති බව සඳහන් වේ.
Ada Derana
A day ahead of the World Cup final, Sri Lanka have replaced injured allrounder Angelo Mathews with offspinner Suraj Randiv from their 15-member squad. Mathews' absence is a crushing blow for Sri Lanka, since he was a significant presence in the middle order, in addition to being a reliable back-up seamer.
Mathews had left the field during the semi-final against New Zealand with a quadriceps muscle injury when Sri Lanka were fielding, and was visibly hampered for movement when he later came out to bat with a runner. Muttiah Muralitharan was also not in peak physical condition during that game, and the Sri Lankan team management decided to call-up Randiv and veteran seamer Chaminda Vaas as standbys. The pair joined the Sri Lankan team on Thursday evening.
With Mathews not recovering soon enough, Sri Lanka had sought approval from the ICC's technical committee for swapping him with Randiv, and they were given the go-ahead on Friday, less the 24 hours before the final. Randiv was a regular member of Sri Lanka's limited-overs' side last year, but initially missed out on a World Cup spot to Rangana Herath and Ajantha Mendis, who were picked ahead of him as the spinners to support Muralitharan.
Despite struggling with a number of niggles, including injuries to his knee and hamstring, Muralitharan is expected to play in what will be his last international game.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket_worldcup2011/content/current/story/508995.html
හදිසි ආබාධයකට ලක්වූ තුන් ඉරියව් ක්රීඩක ඇන්ජලෝ මැතිව්ස් වෙනුවට පිටදඟ පන්දුයවන සුරාජ් රන්දිව් ක්රීඩා කරන බව අන්තර් ජාතික ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය අද(01) නිවේදනය කර තිබේ.
නවසීලන්තය හා ශ්රී ලංකාව අතර පැවති තරගයේදී ඇන්ජලෝ මැතිව්ස් මාංශ පේශි අබාධයකට ලක්විය.
ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් ඇන්ජලෝ මැතිව්ස් වෙනුවට කණ්ඩායමට ස්ථානගත කිරීමට යෝජනා කළ සුරාජ් රන්දිව් ගේ නම අනුමත කර ඇති බව සඳහන් වේ.
Ada Derana
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