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Zoysa ruled out of Coca Cola Cup with ankle injury
Charlie Austin - 16 July 2001

Chairman of the Sri Lankan selectors, Tikiri Kehelgamuwa, confirmed today that Nuwan Zoysa has been forced to withdraw from the 15-man Sri Lankan one-day squad this morning after failing to recover from an ankle stress fracture.

According to Kehelgamuwa Zoysa, will be out of action for the next two months and will therefore miss the three-match Test series with India that follows the Coca Cola Cup.

He is replaced by right arm fast bowler Dinusha Fernando who played in the recent Pakistan A series and first made a name for himself by clean bowling Michael Atherton on three occasions during England's recent tour of Sri Lanka.

The uncapped Fernando will be vying for the vacant opening bowler slot with Dulip Liyanage. Chaminda Vaas will take the new ball and is certain to play. Dilhara Fernando and Suresh Perera are considered better bowlers with the old ball and may only play if Sri Lanka plays three fast bowlers, which is likely against India.

Kehelgamuwa, however, has still not ruled out last minute changes to the 15-man squad. A final decision has to be made on Wednesday morning.

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Teams Sri Lanka.
Tournaments Coca-Cola Cup (Sri Lanka)

Results & Scores
Sri Lanka won by 121 runs
Sri Lanka 295/5 (50 ov)
India 174 (47.2 ov)
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