Chameera and Mathews to join Sri Lanka's World Cup squad as reserves

Allrounder Angelo Mathews and fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera will join Sri Lanka's World Cup squad as travelling reserves.

They are supposed to connect up with the group on Friday, in front of Sri Lanka's fourth association game against Netherlands in Lucknow on Saturday, yet must be drafted into the crew in the event of a physical issue to a player. Quick bowler Matheesha Pathirana had missed their past game due to a shoulder niggle.

Sri Lanka are by and by at the lower part of the focuses table, having lost their initial three games against South Africa, Pakistan and Australia; they are the main side without a success in the competition up until this point.

Their skipper Dasun Shanaka has proactively been governed out of the competition with a quadriceps tear, a physical issue that needs a recuperation time of something like three weeks, and he was supplanted by allrounder Chamika Karunaratne. Kusal Mendis captained Sri Lanka against Australia in Shanaka's nonattendance.

Chameera, 31, would have been a best option pick in Sri Lanka's Reality Cup crew yet was not fit enough for determination by the cutoff time. He last played for Sri Lanka in June against Afghanistan and in the warm-ups of the World Cup qualifier. From that point onward, he was at first out with a torn pectoral muscle, which he experienced in front of the World Cup qualifier in Zimbabwe. What's more, in the wake of recuperating from that, he harmed himself again in the Lanka Chief Association in August.

Mathews has not played an ODI starting from the main round of the home series against Afghanistan in June, and he last played for Sri Lanka in the Colombo Test against Pakistan in July. Sri Lanka are likewise without legspinner Wanindu Hasaranga, who was administered out of the World Cup with a physical issue.