Cricket: Sri Lanka’s ‘awful threesome’ dropped from Indian series
COLOMBO: Three Sri Lankan cricket players requested to leave the visit through England on disciplinary grounds will be dropped from a home arrangement against India in July, authorities said Wednesday (Jun 30).
Named the “horrendous triplet” by media, bad habit commander Kusal Mendis, opener Danushka Gunathilaka and wicket attendant Niroshan Dickwella got back Tuesday.
Sri Lanka Cricket authorities said an investigation into how they left the group’s pandemic disconnected inn in England would begin after their obligatory fourteen day isolate.
None will be remembered for the three one day internationals and three Twenty20 games to begin Jul 13.
“They are probably going to get a base one-year suspension whenever saw as liable of a few penetrates of their agreement,” one authority told AFP, talking on state of obscurity.
The trio was also pulled out of the three-match one-day international series against England after they were seen breaching their bio-secure bubble ahead of the first ODI in Durham.
Mendis and Dickwella were seen smoking in the roads of Durham, where they were based in front of the ODI arrangement.
In a second video via web-based media, Gunathilaka is seen joining the pair, disregarding the Covid rules of their visit.
Britain won the principal ODI on Tuesday by five wickets. The second ODI is expected to be played Thursday with the last on Sunday.
After Sri Lanka’s whitewash in the T20 arrangement against England, their fifth successive arrangement rout, disappointed fans dispatched a mission to avoid the group via online media.
The hashtag #unfollowcricketers started to drift on Facebook on Sunday as a huge number of fans boycotted the online media pages of Mendis and Gunathilaka, reports said.
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