Mumbai: Sri Lanka all-rounder Sanath Jayasuriya has retired with a painful right arm while batting in a warm-up game on Saturday against MCA President's XI.
Team manager Mike Tissera said that Sanath felt a slight pain down his right shoulder while batting.
He added that they do not want to take any chance with their star batsman and that Jayasuriya will get well soon.
Jayasuriya was seen applying an ice pack to the shoulder in the dressing room.
On Friday, he had looked uncomfortable playing leg-side shots while batting in the nets.
The 36-year-old left-hander had collided with the team physiotherapist while playing water polo earlier this week, hurting the shoulder he had dislocated in August.
Jayasuriya, playing in his first game since the accident, had made a breezy 34 when he was forced to retire in pain.
Captain Marvan Atapattu is hopeful his team's most capped player can play at least as a batsman in the seven-match series even if he is unable to bowl his useful left-arm spinners.
The first match of the one-day series is scheduled in Nagpur on Tuesday.
Meanwhile in the warm up match against MCA President's XI at Mumbai, the Lankans have made a decent start scoring 267 with Maharoof and Dilshan hitting half-centuries.
The Lankans are the second best one-day team in the world according to the ICC rankings.
So they start of as the favourites against India, which is ranked seventh.
But coach Tom Moody says it will not be easy despite India's poor run in ODI's of late.
The Lankans are visiting India after 6 years they were last here in 1999 for the Pepsi cup.
Their record in India is not too great; having won only 8 won out of the 26 that they have played.
Comments
0 comment