Sri Lanka's training camp to begin with pink-ball practice game

Sri Lanka's cricketers left for Kandy on Wednesday evening (May 9) for an eight-day private preparing camp that gets in progress the next day at the Pallekele International Stadium. The preparation camp is in readiness for the forthcoming voyage through West Indies and will start with a training match which is booked to start at 2:00 PM neighborhood time under lights utilizing a pink ball. The last Test of the three-coordinate arrangement, in Barbados, will be a day-night pink ball Test.

Previous Australian leg-spinner Peter Sleep and quick knocking down some pins mentor Tim McCaskill, who have been contracted by SLC on short spells, will be a piece of the camp. McCaskill, who has a notoriety of working with damage inclined quick bowlers, will invest energy with players like Suranga Lakmal and Shehan Madushanka. The previous is coming back to focused cricket after a side strain constrained him to avoid the Inter-Provincial First Class diversions while Madushanka, who took a cap trap on make a big appearance, has been sidelined for over three months with hamstring damage.

Sri Lanka's white-ball commander Angelo Mathews, who has been sidelined since January this year with a progression of hamstring and calf wounds, will make a rebound to worldwide cricket in West Indies. He will be a piece of the preparation camp in Kandy. Opening batsman Dimuth Karunaratne, who managed a cracked left forefinger a week ago, anticipates medicinal leeway. Karunaratne did not go to Kandy but rather specialists are sure that he will be fit for the arrangement.

Karunaratne, who just plays Test cricket, was Sri Lanka's best batsman in the more drawn out organization of the diversion a year ago, scoring more than 1000 keeps running in 2017. Mahela Udawatte, another left-gave opening batsman, is the remain by.

A sum of 22 probables of the West Indies visit will be associated with the private camp alongside five youthful players who have been called up on the suggestion of Head Coach Chandika Hathurusingha. The players will miss no less than one session of the continuous Inter-Provincial one-day competition. Once the squad for the West Indies visit is declared in the not so distant future, just the 15-part squad is relied upon to be associated with the preparation camp.

Sri Lanka will leave for West Indies on the 25th of May. The primary Test gets in progress on the sixth of June in Port of Spain, trailed by amusements in St. Lucia and Barbados. Sri Lanka have never won a Test arrangement in West Indies with their last visit to the Caribbean being ten years back.