SLC announces team for U19 World Cup

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka Cricket has announced the Sri Lanka U19 Team for the ICC under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2022. Accordingly, the 17 Member Sri Lanka U19 Squad which took part in the U19 Asia Cup held in UAE will leave for West Indies straight from Dubai on Sunday (02) to take part in the ICC under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2022. The Sri Lanka team will play in the Group ‘D’ of the competition, lined up along with Australia, West Indies, and Scotland. The first game for Sri Lanka U19 will be against Scotland U19, which will be played on 14th January 2022 at the Everest Cricket Club Ground, Georgetown. The team will later take on Australia U19 and West Indies U19s during the preliminary round of the competition as well . The Squad announced by SLC is as follows; 01) Dunith Wellalage (Captain) 02) Shevon Daniel 03) Anjala Bandara 04) Pawan Pathiraja 05) Sadisha Rajapaksa 06) Wanuja Sahan Kumara 07) Raveen De Silva (Vice-Captain) 08) Ranuda Somarathne 09) Malsha Tharupathi 10) Traveen Mathew 11) Yasiru Rodrigo 12) Matheesha Pathirana 13) Chamidu Wickramasinghe 14) Vinuja Ranpul 15) Sakuna Liyanage 16) Abhisheak Liyanaarachchi 17) Sadeesh Jayawardena