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Sri Lanka Cricket, on Thursday, announced its separate ODI and T20I squads for next month’s home series against Pakistan.
All-rounder, Jeevan Mendis, who has not played for the national side since the series against Pakistan in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 in November last year, has been recalled in the ODI squad. The 29-year-old Colombo-born all-rounder, who is yet to debut in
the Test format, has so far played 19 One Day Internationals and averages 19.18 with the bat. His left-arm leg-spin has fetched him 14 wickets as well.
The other two players returning to the squad, which last played limited overs cricket at the quadrangular Asia Cup in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CRD-Fernando-c1292 and Nuwan Pradeep.
Fernando was part of the squad that toured http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 and Bangladesh. The 32-year-old Colombo right-arm medium-pacer has to date played 39 Tests and 147 One Day Internationals, claiming
97 and 187 wickets in each format respectively.
Nuwan Pradeep, who toured South Africa in December last year but returned home after with a hamstring strain, without featuring in a single international game. He has so far played only one Test for the islanders and is yet to debut in the One Day International
format of the game.
Left-arm Orthodox bowler, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BAW-Mendis-c1127 and Ferveez Maharoof however, failed to make the cut.
The SLC selectors have not yet named a captain for the home series but http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DPMD-Jayawardene-c1397 is expected to remain at the helm. The Islanders will host Pakistan in two T20 Internationals and five One Dayers in June.
The ODI and T20 series will be followed by a three-match Test series, for which the squad will be announced sometime during the one-day series.
Twenty20 squad: Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CK-Kapugedera-c1269,
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Isuru-Udana-c64628.
One-day squad: Mahela Jayawardene, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TM-Dilshan-c2691, Kumar Sangakkara, Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Mathews, Lahiru Thirimanne, Jeevan Mendis, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekera, Sachithra Senanayake, Lasith Malinga, Rangana Herath, Upul Tharanga,
Nuwan Pradeep, Dilhara Fernando.
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