Susantha Pasqual
Sri Lanka will be without the services of some of their more regular and experienced players, including Niroshan Dickwella, Dinesh Chandimal, Upul Tharanga and Akila Dananjaya. Dimuth Karunaratne, who last played an ODI in March 2015, at the previous World Cup, was named captain for this year’s tournament. He recently led his side to a historic 2-0 sweep of South Africa earlier this year – Sri Lanka’s maiden Test series win in the country – but is yet to make his captaincy debut in ODIs. Karunaratne has some way to go as a batsman – he’s got the technique and knows how to score runs, but has only 190 runs from 17 games, at an average of under 16.