Sri Lanka Official Team Squad For Cricket World Cup 2019 (Confirmed)

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The mega cricket event ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 is all set to take off in England & Wales from 30^th May 2019 and ran until 14^th July 2019. Sri Lanka is among the 9 other participating teams of this cricket tournament.

Sri Lanka on the behalf of their improved ICC ODI ranking has succeed to enter into the main rounds of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 where they are scheduled to appear in 2 warm-up matches before playing 9 group stage games of this event.

Though Sri Lanka is considered as 3^rd best ODI side of Asia after Pakistan and India but they are not entering in World Cup 2019 as hot favorites as their previous playing record in this tournament is not that impress which could represent them as hot contenders in World Cup 2019.

However, Sri Lanka holds capability to put down any of the emerging side of this event as Sri Lanka holds very balanced and strong ODI side for World Cup 2019. Moreover, their performance in recent ODI series remained in high end. Well scenario is quite different for Sri Lanka in World Cup 2019 as compared to last world cup edition because they are coming in with entire new squad along with some old mates like T Perera, A Methews and K Perera.

In spotlight the playing record of Sri Lanka in previous editions of World Cup is quite appealing as this team had won World Cup once in their history and that was back in 1996 whereas Sri Lanka reached the finals of World Cup for the two times in 2007 and 2011.

The management of Sri Lanka has still not announced their official playing squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. But we have filtered top 15 ODI players squad of this team and hopefully the final playing eleven will be picked up from these players. The probable team for Sri Lanka includes.

Key Players for Sri Lanka

When it comes to key players Sri Lanka holds wide options in both bowling and batting department still the presence of J Mendis, T Perera, K Perera, A Mathews and K Mendis is quite crucial but Sri Lanka will definitely miss their quality pace bowler and X-skipper L Malanga in current ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

Batsmen in Sri Lanka Team

Angelo Mathews

• ICC ODI Ranking: 34^th
• Total Matches: 203
• Runs: 5380
• Highest Score: 139
• Average: 42.36
• Strike Rate: 83.39

Niroshan Dickwella

• ICC ODI Ranking: 34^th
• Total Matches: 52
• Runs: 1571
• Highest Score: 116
• Average: 32.72
• Strike Rate: 93.56

Upul Tharanga

• ICC ODI Ranking: 61^st
• Total Matches: 234
• Runs: 6941
• Highest Score: 174
• Average: 33.85
• Strike Rate: 75.99

Bowlers In Sri Lanka

Akila Dananjaya

• ICC ODI Bowlers Ranking: 13^th
• Matches: 34
• Wickets: 48
• Best Figures: 6 for 29

Suranga Lakmal

• ICC ODI Bowlers Ranking: 42^nd
• Matches: 81
• Wickets: 105
• Best Figures: 4 for 13

Dushmantha Chameera

• ICC ODI Bowlers Ranking: 68^th
• Matches: 23
• Wickets: 19
• Best Figures: 3 for 20

Options for Sri Lanka cricket team

The most experienced and successful ODI batsmen of Sri Lanka Angelo Mathews will skippered Sri Lanka in ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 whereas Sri Lanka is entering in this event with two wicket keepers as Sadeera Samarawickrama and Niroshan Dickwelle. The role of Sadeera will remain marginal if Dickwelle will recovery from his injury and available before the start of World Cup 2019.

Sri Lanka will hopefully focus on their main batting unit as their main arsenal during ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 and no doubt this team has recruit some best ODI batsmen including Upul Tharanga, Dinesh Chandimal and Kusal Mendis.

One of the major lack in Sri Lanka cricket team is absence of quality pace bowler as currently this team is playing with only one pace bowler Lahiru Kumara whereas their major bowling attack revolves around spin and medium pace bowlers.

Dasun Shanaka, Thisara Perera, Kasun Rajitha and Nuwan Pradeep are quality medium pacers in this team whereas Dhananjaya Silva, Asela Generatne, Akil Danajaya and Jeffry Vandesay are best spin options for Sri Lanka in World Cup 2019.

No doubt Sri Lanka playing squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 looks pretty strong in 1^st look but still they need to perform out of their socks to compete some best cricketing sides in ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.