Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews.
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Veteran all-rounder Angelo Mathews and pacer Dushmantha Chameera will join Sri Lanka’s World Cup squad in Lucknow on Friday as travelling reserves, nation’s cricket board introduced on Thursday.
Both Mathews and Chameera final performed in an ODI collection towards Afghanistan in June.
The 36-year-old Mathews is a veteran of 221 video games with shut to 6000 runs and 120 wickets beneath his belt. Of late, he has not bowled a lot and performs as a specialist batter solely.
Right-arm pacer Chameera, 31, has performed 44 ODIs taking 50 wickets. “Sri Lanka Cricket wishes to announce that Angelo Mathews and Dushmantha Chameera will join the team in India as traveling reserves,” SLC posted on X.
“The Sri Lanka Cricket Selectors took this decision in order to ensure that the team has ready replacements in place to face contingencies, such as an injury to an existing squad member. Accordingly @Angelo69Mathews and @dushmantha05 will join the team tomorrow,” the board introduced.
Sri Lanka subsequent play is the Netherlands on October 21 in Lucknow.
