Five Sri Lankan players including Sandakan, Nisanka included in T20 World Cup squad

Pathum Nisanka, Minod Bhanuka, Ashen Bandara, Lakshan Sandakan and Ramesh Mendis have been named in Sri Lanka’s squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup, while Lahiru Madushanka was announced first after failing to recover on time from a broken collarbone. Has been dropped from the team. He suffered this injury in the series against South Africa.

Sandakan has 20 T20 matches to its name, while the other four have played a combined 15 matches. It is also very unlikely that any of them will make it to Sri Lanka’s starting XI, although all of them have been included in the place of injured players.

Sandakan will be one of four specialist spinners in the team. He will be accompanied by Vanindu Hasaranga, Mahesh Thekshana and Praveen Jayavikrama.

Sri Lanka will begin their World Cup campaign with a firefight against Namibia, Ireland and the Netherlands. Before this, he will also play two T20s against Oman on October 7 and 9. The team will fly to Oman on October 3.