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Injuries plague Sri Lanka squad to Australia

AFP
28 November 1998



COLOMBO, Nov 28 (AFP) - Injuries are threatening the Sri Lankan cricket team preparing to tour Australia with vice captain Aravinda de Silva and star spinner Muttiah Muralitharan among four players in doubt.

They have been given until December 23 to pass a fitness test if they are to remain in the squad for the triangular one-day series that also includes England.

The other two injured players are Upul Chanadana and Nuwan Soysa.

``Their positions would be reviewed after medical examinations,'' Sri Lankan Cricket Board chief executive officer Dhammika Ranatunga said Saturday.

Muralitharan is still nursing an injury he sustained during the mini world cup in Bangladesh.

The four have been included in a 15-member squad led by skipper Arjuna Ranatunga to go to Australia in January and no substitutes have been named in their place.

Sri Lanka squad: Arjuna Ranatunga (capt), Aravinda de Silva (vice capt), Sanath Jayasuriya, Marvan Atapattu, Roshan Mahanama, Hashan Tillekeratne, Romesh Kaluwitharana, Chaminda Vaas, Muttiah Muralitharan, Upul Chandana, Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Suresh Perera, Nuwan Zoysa, Aviska Gunawardena and Tilan Samarawaeera.



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