T20 WC: Fitness issues for Sri Lanka as Dushmantha Chameera ruled out

Sri Lankan pacer Dushmantha Chameera is ruled out of Sri Lankas final Group A round one match against the Netherlands at the ICC T20 World Cup due to a calf injurySri Lanka has to win this match in order to qualify for the Super 12 phase of the tournament As per ESPNCricinfo though he claimed a matchwinning 315 against UAE he failed to finish his spell due to injury It was later confirmed by Professor Arjuna de Silva who oversees the teams medical operations that the pacer will be missing the match against the Dutch and his participation for the rest of the tournament is also in doubtThere are also concerns over fitness of Danushka Gunathilaka and Pramod Madushan who had to go for scans on hamstring injuries but medical team hopes that Pramods injury is not too serious Danusha had also missed the match against UAEAlso ReadSri Lanka back on trackThe loss of Madhushan and Chameera will be a big blow to Sri Lanka Lankans dominated UAE batters and bundled them out for 73 in 18 overs But there are concerns over batting as they collapsed from 1173 in the 15th over to 1528 in 20 oversSri Lankan batters had also put up a bad performance against Namibia with middleorder failing heavily For head coach Chris Silverwood this could be due to temperatures dipping in GeelongThe temperatures we are experiencing the boys are not used to It is certainly not Colombo Even I am cold a little bit You cannot help it The preparation and facilities we were given having arrived early were superb The boys have prepped the best we possibly can We had a good camp in Kandy before we got on an airplane and came here We have made the best of what we have had really ESPNCricinfo quoted the coach as sayingThe bowlers put up a complete performance on Tuesday though with Chameera and Madushan destroying the top order before spinners unleashed terror on middle and lowerorderI think we adjusted pretty well today In the first game we did not read the conditions particularly well and we certainly did not grasp them We are not hiding from that Thats something that we spoke about in the debrief quite honestly said the coachThey have faced facts and come out today and applied themselves much better The track was a little bit slow We saw that if the bowlers bang it in hard it is very difficult to get them away So we have to be patient we have to build innings and for the majority of today we did that he addedOpener Pathum Nissanka was SLs best performer as a batter scoring 74 runs more than UAE did His innings was a measured one on a difficult surfacePathum at the top of the order played a real matchwinning innings He should be very proud of himself for what hes done helping the team get across the line concluded the coachSri Lanka are now at third place in the points table with two points and one win in two matches UAE is at the bottom of the table with zero points having lost both their matchesPut to bat first by UAE Sri Lanka posted 1528 in their 20 overs Opener Pathum Nissanka starred for the Lankans with a brilliant 74 off 60 balls which consisted of six fours and two sixes Dhananjya de Silva played a knock of 33 in 21 balls putting up a 50run stand for the second wicket with NissankaHowever Meiyappan took a hattrick to swing the momentum in UAEs favour by reducing Lanka to 1175 However Sri Lanka managed to scratch their way past the 150run markKarthik Meiyappan finished with figures for 319 Zahoor Khan took 226 in four overs Aryan and Aayan took one wicket eachChasing 153 UAE was never a threat to Sri Lanka Pacer Dushmantha Chameeras 315 powerplay spell destroyed UAEs top order with Muhammad Waseem 2 Aryan Lakra 1 and captain Chundangapoyil Rizwan 1 leaving early leaving UAE rattling at 319 in 42 oversStar spin allrounder Wanindu Hasaranga 38 Pramod Madhushan 114 Maheesh Theekshana 215 and skipper Dasun Shanaka also came through with some excellent bowling to bundle out UAE for just 73 runs handing them a 79run defeatAayan Afzal Khan 19 and Junaid Siddique 18 were among the leading contributors in UAEs batting but their scores were not enoughNissankas matchwinning knock earned him the Man of the Match titleThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever