Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Zaheer ruled out of series against Sri Lanka

Published>Tue, Jul 06 10 11:17 PM

New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) India's pace spearhead Zaheer Khan has been ruled out of the away Test series against Sri Lanka with a shoulder injury.

Karnataka seamer Abhimanyu Mithun has been named as Zaheer's replacement.

'Zaheer Khan has been ruled out of the forthcoming Sri Lanka series because of a shoulder injury. The national selection committee has chosen to replace him with Abhimanyu Mithun,' Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary N.Srinivasan said in a statement here Tuesday.

India will play three Tests against Sri Lanka with the first Test scheduled at Galle July 18.

India will also play an ODI tri-series, also featuring New Zealand, starting Aug 10.

The squad for the tri-series will be announced later.


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