Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi out of 2nd Test with knee damage

Pakistan’s first-test star quick bowler Shaheen Afridi has a bruised knee and received’t play within the second cricket take a look at towards Sri Lanka beginning Sunday.

The 22-year-old Afridi was the choose of the seamers from both aspect within the first take a look at, ending with 4 wickets within the first innings that Pakistan received by 4 wickets in Galle.

Pakistan group officers confirmed Friday that he wouldn’t play within the second take a look at. Afridi completed on 99 take a look at wickets on the finish of Sri Lanka’s first innings and hopes of him finishing the milestone of 100 wickets within the second take a look at ended with the damage.

Afridi, fielding at mid-wicket, dived in an try to chop off a Dinesh Chandimal boundary on day three and was seen hobbling off the sphere. He was taken for scans and though there was no fracture, swelling and ache dominated him out.

Pakistan has uncapped fast Harris Rauf or seam bowling all-rounder Faheem Ashraf as replacements.

Sri Lanka, in the meantime, introduced in uncapped off-spinner Lakshitha Manasinghe after Maheesh Theekshana was dominated out of the match. Theekshana sustained a reduce on his proper index finger through the first take a look at.

The hosts additionally recalled Pathum Nissanka, who had examined constructive for COVID-19 through the Australia sequence.

Although Sri Lanka has not referred to as up a substitute wicketkeeper, a group spokesman mentioned that Dinesh Chandimal is ready to take over wicketkeeping duties from Niroshan Dickwella.

Chandimal has been in robust kind with the bat — his unbeaten double hundred towards Australia within the second take a look at two weeks in the past was adopted by 76 and 94 runs not out within the first take a look at towards Pakistan.

Pakistan chased down a report 342 runs to win the primary take a look at. It’s the very best profitable run chase ever in Galle.

The second take a look at scheduled was scheduled to happen in Colombo however was shifted to Galle resulting from political unrest within the capital Colombo.

The nation goes via its worst financial disaster since independence in 1948 and there are extreme shortages of important gadgets reminiscent of gasoline, cooking gasoline and medication. There have been weeks-long protests outdoors the Presidential Secretariat and earlier this month President Gotabaya Rajapaksa needed to flee the nation and resign from his submit.