Rangana Herath ruled out of 1/Three Test towards India

Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath has been ruled out of the 1/Three Test towards India. Sri Lanka tend to title legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay, who’s uncapped in Tests, as the artificial for the Test that starts in Delhi on December 2.

Herath went wicketless in the first Test on a seamer-well-behaved pitch in Kolkata but contributed with a handy 67 to hand Sri Lanka an critical lead of 122 runs in the foremost innings. In Nagpur, where the Indian spinners picked thirteen wickets, Herath performed with figures of 39-eleven-eighty one-1 as India needed to bat finest once.

Despite troubling the Indian batsmen in the foremost Test, Sri Lanka’s bowlers picked finest six wickets in the 2nd Test and will likely be with out their most skilled bowler now. Vandersay brings with him an experience of 11 ODIs and seven T20Is by which he has mute 14 wickets in all. His ODI average is an unimpressive Forty three but he has an economy fee of 5.seventy four which rises to 7.37 in T20Is.

Sri Lanka also have left-arm wristspinner Lakshan Sandakan in the squad who has done seven Tests but went wicketless in the tour game in Kolkata before the Test sequence.