Wanindu Hasaranga Steps Down As Sri Lanka T20I Skipper Ahead of White Ball Series Against India
Wanindu Hasaranga has stepped down as the captain of Sri Lanka's T20I side following their early exit from the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024.
Colombo: Wanindu Hasaranga has stepped down simply because the captain of Sri Lanka’s T20I facet following their early exit from the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2024.The Sri Lankan spinner, who turned appointed simply because the T20I captain, best final year, led the group in 10 suits.
Based on a remark launched through Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC), Hasaranga recounted in his resignation letter that he took this resolution “internal the actual undertaking” of the group.
“Sri Lanka will always have my utmost best efforts as a participant, and I am going to help and stand through my group and administration as always,” Hasaranga wrote in his resignation letter to SLC.
Sri Lanka confirmed that Hasaranga would proceed to be a key participant of their squads going forward.
The Asian group takes on India in a domestic white-ball bilateral collection, starting July 26. They are but to title their squad and skipper for the collection.
Reasonably, the lately concluded ICC T20 World Cup 2024 turned negative for Sri Lanka as they failed to benefit the Meaningful Eights. They lost to South Africa and Bangladesh internal the community stage and can best register one win against the Netherlands. Their activity against Nepal turned washed out for that reason of rain. With simply three points, Lanka achieved internal the 0.33 spot in Crew D.
Beforehand on Monday, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced former cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya simply because the intervening time head tutor of the males’s senior usa wide group till September 2024.
Jayasuriya has scored 21,032 runs at a median of 34.14 in 586 global suits from 1989 to 2011. He has scored 42 centuries and 103 fifties for SL, with the actual score of 340.
He is the ninth-best run-scorer in global cricket and the 0.33-best scorer for SL behind Mahela Jayawardene (25,957 runs) and Sangakkara (28,016). The fitting run-scorer is Sachin Tendulkar (34.357 runs).
He also took 440 wickets in global cricket.
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