Thilan Samaraweera Included in Sri Lanka for South Africa Tour

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 at 12:04 pm , filed under News by Forrester Gavin

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Thilan Samaraweera has been included in Sri Lanka revised Test squad for the forthcoming South Africa tour that would start in next month. He was lately added to the squad, who becomes a 17^th member of the touring side.

The 35-year-old talented right-handed batsman was included in Sri Lankan squad, after Mahindananda Aluthgamage the Sports minister of Sri Lanka has accepted the request of the selectors. The minister said that, he had a meeting with the national selectors and approved their request. The approval of the minister is necessary for any kind of selections.

Samaraweera has scored 4,683 runs in 68 Tests so far with 12 centuries at an average of 52.61. He was ignored, after the third tests against Australia in Colombo in September. Also, his exclusion from the Sri Lanka side was a surprise, for the recent concluded tour of United Arab Emirates against Pakistan, in which they lost the games in all the formats. They lost the Tests with 1-0 followed by 4-1 One-Day international series loss and 1-0 loss in lone Twenty20 match.

However, Sri Lanka has been scheduled to play a practice match in Benoni from December 9-11, before the first test begins from December 15, 2011 at Centurion, followed by the two tests at Durban and Cape Town.

Sri Lanka Test Squad:

Tillakaratne Dilshan (Captain), , Tharanga Paranavitana, Angelo Mathews (Vice-Captain), Thilan Samaraweera Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Suranga Lakmal, Dinesh Chandimal, Kaushal Silva, Dimuth Karunaratne, Lahiru Thirimanne, Dilhara Fernando, Nuwan Pradeep, Thisara Perera, Ajantha Mendis, Chanaka Welegedara, Rangana Herath.

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