AUS VS SL T20: Nine NEW FACES in the Sri Lanka team Australia and Sri Lanka will battle it out in the five-match T20I series starting on Friday (February 11). Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) will host the first match. Australia’s squad is packed with match-winners such as Aaron Finch, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Marsh, and Mathew Wade. While the Sri Lankan team boasts of quite a few new faces. Follow Sri Lanka tour of Australia 2022 Live updates on InsideSport.IN
AUS VS SL T20: Nine NEW FACES in the Sri Lanka team, who will make it to the playing XI?
- As many as nine players have been selected for the series Down Under are relatively new ones.
- The Sri Lankan squad will be led by Dasun Shanaka.
- The visitors will have the likes of Janith Liyanage, Nuwan Thushara, Shiran Fernando, and Kamil Mishara, who have not played a T20I.
- Meanwhile, Ramesh Mendis, Pathum Nissanka, Praveen Jayawickrama, Asalanka, and Binura Fernando have also not played many T20Is.
Here is the Lankan squad for the T20I tour of Australia
Avishka Fernando, Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Dasun Shanaka (Captain), Danushka Gunathilaka, Janith Liyanage, Charith Asalanka, Ramesh Mendis, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Chandimal, Kamil Mishara, Chamika Karunaratne, Lahiru Kumara, Nuwan Thushara, Dushmantha Chameera, Binura Fernando, Maheesh Theekshana, Jeffrey Vandersay, Praveen Jayawickrama, Shiran Fernando
AUS VS SL T20: Nine NEW FACES in the Sri Lanka team, who will make it to the playing XI?
Among the news faces, Sri Lanka might possibly hand debuts to Janith Liyanage and Shiran Fernando. The former is batting all-rounder and impressed one and for Galle’s squad for the 2017-18 Super Four Provincial Tournament. Liyanage has played 40 T20 matches and has scored 711 runs. Meanwhile, Fernando is a right-arm fast bowler who has played 19 T20 matches and has picked up 28 wickets.
Sri Lanka fast bowlers Kumara and Chameera did not have a great time in T20Is in 2021. The presence of Shiran Fernando will get skipper Shanaka another option to explore.
AUS VS SL T20: Nine NEW FACES in the Sri Lanka team, who will make it to the playing XI?
Probable Sri Lankan squad for the first T20I against Australia
Pathum Nissanka, Charith Asalanka, Avishka Fernando, Ramesh Mendis, Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Wanindu Hasaranga, Dasun Shanaka (c), Janith Liyanage, Shiran Fernando, Maheesh Theekshana, Lahiru Kumara
AUS VS SL T20: Nine NEW FACES in the Sri Lanka team, who will make it to the playing XI?
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