{"id":53088,"date":"2020-11-21T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T11:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=53088"},"modified":"2020-11-21T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T11:52:04","slug":"chris-gayle-and-lasith-malinga-pull-out-of-lpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/chris-gayle-and-lasith-malinga-pull-out-of-lpl\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Gayle and Lasith Malinga pull out of LPL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Gayle and Lasith Malinga pull out of LPL<\/span><\/h1>\n

\"Andrew<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span>Espncricinfo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Foreign players, franchise staff and tournament organisers continue to arrive in the Sooriyawewa area ahead of the start of the Lanka Premier League, but the tournament has been hit by two further high-profile player withdrawals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chris Gayle<\/a>\u00a0has told the Kandy Tuskers franchise that he will not be traveling to Sri Lanka on account of an injury.\u00a0Lasith Malinga<\/a>\u00a0– Sri Lanka’s most recognisable T20 player – has also pulled out a week from the tournament’s start date, citing inadequate preparation time. The arrival of\u00a0Andre Russell<\/a>\u00a0this week, however, will ensure that the tournament will have at least one global star.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gayle’s exit\u00a0had been rumoured<\/a>\u00a0for several days, but Malinga’s withdrawal has come as more of a surprise, particularly as he was one of the Galle Gladiators’ marquee players, and was expected to lead that team. Now 37, Malinga had not played a competitive match since March, and said that the lack of cricket and training this year had prompted his decision to withdraw.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Since the West Indies series early this year, I haven’t had any cricket, and there hasn’t been any training for me at all,” Malinga told ESPNcricinfo. “When the draft happened last month, I thought there would be about three weeks of training before the LPL, but there has been nothing. They are only having us come to Hambantota this week, and even there they are asking us to do three days of quarantine.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s not easy for a bowler to play at a high level without training. At the LPL they also have matches on back-to-back days. So I decided not to play the tournament.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the Sri Lanka coaching staff had run training sessions and training camps through the year, and invited Malinga to at least some of them, Malinga is not understood to have engaged in any rigorous training with the national squad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also withdrawing from the tournament this week is\u00a0Ravi Bopara<\/a>, who had been drafted late into the Jaffna Stallions franchise, but has now confirmed to the franchise that he will not play. He had requested 100% of his LPL payment before the tournament; the franchise felt it could not accommodate this. Both the Kandy Tuskers, who lost Gayle, and the Stallions are looking for replacements for these players. There has been no word from the Gladiators yet about a replacement for Malinga.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Colombo Kings franchise, meanwhile, which had lost Kabir Ali as coach due to his testing positive for Covid-19 this week, has replaced him with\u00a0Herschelle Gibbs<\/a>, who initially traveled to Sri Lanka to work as a commentator for the tournament. Gibbs will have\u00a0Rangana Herath<\/a>\u00a0as an assistant coach.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first match of the LPL is scheduled to be played on November 26. The tournament is set to be played at the Sooriyawewa stadium in its entirety, and is set to run until December 16.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Gayle and Lasith Malinga pull out of LPL Source:Espncricinfo Foreign players, franchise staff and tournament organisers continue to arrive in the Sooriyawewa area ahead of the start of the Lanka Premier League, but the tournament has been hit by two further high-profile player withdrawals. 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