The ICC has approved Kusal Perera as a replacement player for Dinesh Chandimal in Sri Lanka’s squad for the World Cup. Chandimal suffered a hamstring injury during his side’s match against Australia in Sydney and has been ruled out of further participation in the tournament.
Perera has played 41 ODIs for Sri Lanka in which he has scored 839 runs with one century and four half-centuries. His last ODI was against England in Pallekele in December 2014.
Sri Lanka is in Pool A of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 along with co-hosts Australia and New Zealand, Bangladesh, England, and qualifiers Afghanistan and Scotland. Sri Lanka has played five matches, winning three.
Their sixth and final pool stage match is against Scotland in Hobart on Wednesday, 11 March. The 1996 world champion has already qualified for the quarter-final, which it will play in Sydney.
