Hasaranga joins the Test team again

Hasaranga joins the Test team again

Wanindu Hasaranga, a leg spinner for Sri Lanka has select the 17-man team for test series in Bangladesh after retiring from Test cricket. Wanindu Hasaranga announced his retirement from Test cricket in an seek to expand his career in white-ball cricket. They selected him as the national team’s shortest-format captain less than a year before the T20 World Cup.

But now that he’s a part of the Test series. It will have an impact on his involvement in the Indian Premier League. Sunrisers Hyderabad, who acquired him for a base fee of INR 1.5 crore, will be without him for their opening three games of the season if the second Test continues for the full five days. As it stands on April 5, their fourth game—the final one of the season’s first half—will likewise be close.

One of the two changes Sri Lanka made to the team that faced Afghanistan in the one-off Test last month was the addition of Hasaranga. They left out Asitha Fernando and Milan Priyanth Rathnayake. Even though they called in Hasaranga and off-spinner Nishan Peiris.

The series’ first Test will start in Sylhet on March 22. The second game is scheduled to start in Chattogram on March 30.