GALLE, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka yesterday suffered a big blow when in-form opener Tillakaratne Dilshan was ruled out of the opening Test against New Zealand in Galle after failing to recover from a back injury.
Dilshan, who also missed the last two matches of the recent one-day series against the tourists, was replaced by uncapped opening batsman Dimuth Karunaratne, 24.
The right-hander has so far scored 5,028 runs in 81 Tests with 14 hundreds and 21 half-centuries.
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