Dickwella, Gunathilake and Mendis given a pardon, permitted to play in domestic cricket- Lanka Premier League to commence on 5th December  By sunil Thenabadu (sports editor-eLanka) Banned Sri Lanka cricketers  for misconduct for breaking the Bio-Bubble while touring England with SL team Niroshan Dickwella, Dhanushka Gunathilaka and Kusal Mendis in June this year have got a reprieve  before their one year ban period expired have been granted permission to play in the Lanka Premier League (LPL) that will have top players both overseas and local in action when it begins on December 5 in Sri Lanka.  The three players were banned from both international and domestic cricket and fined Rs.10 million each at a time they were also involved in a pay dispute with Sri Lanka Cricket.  The squads:  Jaffna Kings: Faf du Plessis, Thisara Perera, Wahab Riaz, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shoaib Malik, Usman Shinwari, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Avishka Fernando, Upul Tharanga, Chaturanga de Silva, ...

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Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva tops table in ICC T20 world rankings in Bowling – By Sunil Thenabadu (eLanka Sports Editor) Wanindu Harasanga de Silva born on 29th July 1997, professional Sri Lankan cricketer ( elder brother Chathuranga de Siva also represented the national team)  bowls right arm  leg spin and googly, bats right hand, former Richmond College cricketer, Sri Lanka Under 19 cricketer, was selected to play in U19 WC held in Bangladesh in year 2016 also a member of Sylhet sixes,Jaffna Stallions lately of the Royal Challenges Bangalore IPL team in the second phase in UAE is September 2021 debut on the 20th September 2020 against the Kolkata Night Riders in the IPL 2020..  Hasaranga has represented Sri Lanka national team in all three formats. Hasaranga made ODI debut  on 2nd July in year 2017 against Zimbabwe, T/ 20 debut   against  on1st September 2019  against New Zealand while Test debut was on South Africa ...

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