Tom Jeffrey
The newly appointed selection committee which is headed by Pramodya Wickramasinghe first task will be picking up a test squad for the Bangladesh test series which is going to start on the April 21st. Since the current Bangladesh team mainly dominated by the spin bowlers as they do not have a good fast bowling line up we must arrange pitches which is suited for more fast bowlers. SLC made the right choice by picking the Pallekale stadium to host these two test series as Pallekale will be the most suited for the fast bowlers in the country. Compared to spin bowlers we have a good fast bowling stock currently as well.
In addition we also have a major blow to our side with ace spinner Lasith Embuldeniya has been out of this test series. Since Lasith is injured we must give a chance to young Duvindu Thilakarathna and see. We must not go back to tried and tested old spinners like Dilruwan Perera and Malinda Pushpakumara again.
The following is a squad that Pramodya Wickramasinghe and co should closely looking at.
Playing XI
1. Dimuth Karunarathna
2. Lahiru Thirimanne
3. Pathum Nissanka
4. Kusal Mendis
5. Anjelo Mathews
6. Dhananjaya De Silva
7. Niroshan Dickwella – WK
8. Suranga Lakmal
9. Duvindu Thilakarathna
10. Dushmantha Chameera
11. Vishwa Fernando
Other Squad Members
12. Lahiru Kumara
13. Asitha Fernando
14. Wanindu Hasaranga
15. Dasun Shanaka
16. Oshadha Fernando
17. Praveen Jayawickrama
18. Nishan Peiris