
Danushka Gunathilaka, who travelled with the Sri Lanka cricket team to UAE to take part in the Asia Cup 2018, will return to the country, as he has sustained a lower-back injury, said Sri Lanka Cricket on Thursday, 13 September evening.
Shehan Jayasuriya, who was in the stand-by list of the Lankan squad, will fly to UAE on Friday, as the replacement for Gunathilaka.
Sri Lanka are to play the curtain-raiser of Asia Cup, against Bangladesh, on Saturday at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium under lights.