Sri Lanka suspends opener on bungle charge

COLOMBO: Batsman Danushka Gunathilaka has been dangling over a bungle assign in a center of Sri Lanka’s second Test opposite South Africa, a country’s cricket house pronounced Sunday.

The 27-year-old opener will be barred from all forms of a diversion tentative a outcome of an investigation, a house said, but naming a purported misconduct.

The cessation will go into outcome after a Test is resolved in Colombo, it added.

The house will also “withhold Gunathilaka’s price for a ongoing Test compare until a outcome of a inquiry”, it said.

The batsman scored 57 and 61 runs in a second and final Test, with Sri Lanka on lane for a array varnish after trouncing a visitors in Galle final week.

South Africa were 5/139 chasing an impossible-looking 490 aim during tighten of play Sunday.

Another member of Sri Lanka’s Test squad, leg-spinner Jeffrey Vandersay, was on Friday given a dangling one-year anathema from general cricket after pleading guilty to bungle during final month’s debate of a West Indies. —AFP

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