Sri Lanka’s prince in waiting for the national cricket vice-captain’s position Angelo Mathews was flown to Melbourne, Australia last week for further treatment with regard to his troubling knee.
In a communiqué with Sri Lanka Cricket Dr. David Young – one of the foremost in the field of Sports Medicine stated .
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That Mathews was diagnosed with acute proximal rectus femoris tear in right leg.
It further stated Mathews is carrying a chronic injury in his left knee. Where the tendon attaches to the other pole of the patella there’s chronic inflammation, a condition that is very common in weightlifters.
Mathews will be under treatment in Melbourne for at least two weeks.
Mathews one of the brightest cricketing prospects of late walked off the field with his injury during the World Cup semi-final against New Zealand at the R. Premadasa Stadium, and then missed the World Cup final which Sri Lanka lost to India at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
When Sri Lanka embarked on the current tour of England The Lankan selection panel led by Duleep Mendis kept the position of the vice-captain open while inviting the former Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara to step in case of the incumbent skipper T.M. Dilshan is not available for a game.
Meanwhile the Sunday Times reliably understands that former Sri Lankan off spinner Kumar Dharmasena has been elevated to the ICC Elite Umpires Panel.
Forty-year-old Dharmasena a member of the 1996 World Cup winning Sri Lankan squad played over 140 one-day internationals and 31 Test matches for Sri Lanka before he switched his cricketing position as an umpire.
Dharmasena who impressed the ICC hierarchy with his accurate judgements was also a member of the 2011 Cricket World Cup which was played in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Moving up with Dharmasena from ICC International Panel of umpires will be the 38-year-old Englishman Richard Kettleborough.
It is also reported that the solitary Lankan umpire in the panel at present – Asoka de Silva and Australian Daryl Harper will move down from the Elite Panel to the International Panel to make way for the two newcomers.
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