Sri Lankan squad for Australia (26 Oct 95)
COLOMBO (Oct 26, 1995 - 13:18 EDT) - Pace bowler Manjula Munasinghe, who missed Sri Lanka`s successful tour of Pakistan through injury, has been included in the team to tour Australia starting next month
26-Oct-1995
COLOMBO (Oct 26, 1995 - 13:18 EDT) - Pace bowler Manjula
Munasinghe, who missed Sri Lanka`s successful tour of Pakistan
through injury, has been included in the team to tour Australia
starting next month.
Sri Lanka will play three tests and then join West Indies in the
World Series Cup one-day tournament with hosts Australia.
In March, Sri Lanka chalked up their first overseas test and
series win when they beat New Zealand 1-0 in a two-match series.
This month they beat Pakistan 2-1 in both the tests and one-day
series in Pakistan and went on to win the Champions` Trophy in
Sharjah.
Sri Lanka: Arjuna Ranatunga (captain), Aravinda de Silva
(vice-captain), Roshan Mahanama, Chandika Hathurusinghe, Asanka
Gurusinha, Sanath Jayasuriya, Hashan Tillekeratne, Sanjeeva
Ranatunga, Chamara Dunusinghe, Romesh Kaluwitharana, Kumar
Dharmasena, Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Pramodya
Wickremasinghe, Eric Upashantha, Ravindra Pushpakumara, Jayantha
Silva, Manjula Munasinghe.