Sri Lanka National Team will be touring India from February 06 to February 16 Sri Lanka Cricket announced. BCCI announced Visakhapatnam, Pune and Delhi. as the venues for the three T20s
Sri Lanka Cricket on Thursday (28) announced the following national players for the above tour.
Sri Lanka Squad
Dinesh Chandimal (Captain), T M Dilshan, Seekuge Prasanna, Milinda Siriwardena, Dhanushka Gunathilaka, Thisara Perera, Dasun Shanaka, Asela Gunaratne, Chamara Kapugedara, Dushmantha Chameera, Dilhara Fernando, Kasun Rajitha, Binura Fernando, Sachithra Senanayake, Jeffrey Vandersay.
Sri Lanka Cricket further announced that Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Nuwan Kulasekera, Rangana Herath & Nuwan Pradeep were not available for selection due to injuries.
Virat Kohli rested, Umesh Yadav dropped for Sri Lanka T20Is
The decision to rest him has been taken with an eye on the Asia Cup, to be hosted by Bangladesh later in the month and the World Twenty20 tournament in India from March08,2016Pacer Umesh Yadav, who had a tour to forget Down was dropped from the side. The selectors picked up left-arm spinner Pawan Negi for the tour. Negi, who has been doing well in the limited-overs format for Delhi in domestic cricket, has received his first call up to the India side
The selection panel chose to drop Rishi Dhawan, Gurkeerat Mann as well from the squad. The duo struggled during the Australia tour, failing to put up any notable performance.
Manish Pandey has also been rewarded for his match-winning century in the Sydney ODI against Australia as the selectors named him in the 15-member T20 squad.
Making a
comeback was paceman Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who had missed the T20 series
after injuring himself during the ODIs.
The series will begin in Pune
(February 9) and followed by matches in Ranchi (February 12) and
Visakhapatnam (February 14)
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