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Mathews out of Protea Test tour

15 Dec 2020

[caption id="attachment_109015" align="alignleft" width="407"] Latter stages of Angelo Mathews’ 12-year international career was severely plagued by injuries[/caption] Veteran all-rounder Angelo Mathews will miss the two-match Test series in South Africa due to an aggravated hamstring injury. “No he (Mathews) is not going (to South Africa). He has injured his hamstring,” National Selection Committee Chairman Ashantha de Mel told ‘The Morning Sports’  on Monday (14) evening. “There won’t be any addition to the present (Sri Lanka Test) squad. The 22 (number of members of the current squad) will become 21,” de Mel added. Mickey Arthur worried The two Tests in South Africa are to begin on 26 December. Sri Lanka Head Coach Mickey Arthur has already visited South Africa and is evidently upset for the news that the most senior member of the national Test side is now injured while playing T20 cricket here. Arthur has tweeted requesting the authorities not to injure any more players of the Test squad. Mathews may be able to be fit for the forthcoming home Test series against England starting on 14 January. No more bowling in Tests Veteran Sri Lankan all-rounder disclosed only this month that his body can no longer stand up to the rigours of Test cricket bowling. He has said that his future role in the Test team will be only as a specialist batsman. The 33-year-old, who has been battered by injuries throughout his career, has not bowled in a Test since 2018 in Christchurch, New Zealand. The reason was reported as his concerns about the physical toll from his workload across all three formats. Only in short formats “I’ll definitely keep bowling in the shorter formats as long as possible. But to bowl in Test matches, my workload would be extremely high and it’s very demanding when you play all three formats,” Mathews revealed media early this month. Sri Lanka’s two Tests in South Africa begin on 26 December and 3 January (2021) at Centurion and Johannesburg respectively.

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