Sri Lanka finalise squad for Girls’s International Cup Qualifier, 16-year-old Vishmi Gunaratne in
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Imesha Dulani, Sachini Nisansala entire the trio of youngsters within the 17-member squad
Sri Lanka have finalised their 17-member squad for subsequent month’s Girls’s ODI International Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe, with 16-year-old Vishmi Gunaratne – a wonder inclusion when the squad was once first introduced previous this month – holding her position.
Previous this yr Gunaratne, a gap batter and rapid bowler, become the youngest centurion within the historical past of Sri Lanka girls’s top notch cricket at simply 15 years outdated. Her upward thrust to the nationwide ranks is available in a yr through which Sri Lanka’s girls’s crew has but to play a world fit – they have not competed across the world because the Girls’s T20 International Cup in Australia in February-March 2020. They had been because of excursion Pakistan this month, however that fell via.
Gunaratne is one among 3 youngsters to make the squad, with 19-year-old batter Imesha Dulani and 19-year-old left-arm wristspinner Sachini Nisansala the opposite two. The uncapped trio had inspired all through a residential coaching camp, inclusive of intra-squad suits, in September, with Dulani even name-checked not too long ago through captain Chamari Athapaththu as a possible possibility at both 3 or 4 within the batting order.
Their addition supplies a younger injection to a squad this is another way teeming with revel in. Whilst in vice-captain Harshitha Madavi, 23, and the extremely rated Kavisha Dilhari, 20, Sri Lanka have more youthful avid gamers anticipated to shape the backbone of the aspect within the months and years forward, 10 of the 17 avid gamers named within the squad are both 30 years outdated or older. With a number of boasting International Cup revel in, Sri Lanka will know each little bit of it is going to most likely be wanted taking into account the loss of enjoying time the crew has had up to now yr and a part.
None extra so than that equipped through 31-year-old Athapaththu – recently participating within the WBBL with Perth Scorchers – on whom a lot of Sri Lanka’s hopes will firmly and understandably be pinned.
The qualifier will likely be held from November 21 to December 5, and may have 10 groups participating with 3 making it to the Girls’s International Cup in New Zealand from March 4 to April 3, 2022.
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