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Sri Lanka batter Silva to miss Asian Games with finger injury

Global Published 17 September 2026, 12:32 · archived 17 Sep 2026

Sri Lankan hopes of a women’s cricket medal at the Asian Games have suffered a blow after batter Nilakshika Silva was ruled out due to a fractured finger, the country’s board (SLC) said. The middle-order batter was Sri Lanka’s top scorer at the Women’s Asia Cup and helped them reach the final of Twenty20 tournament where they lost to India on Sunday. Samson relishing battle with teen star Sooryavanshi for India spot Sri Lanka, one of the top seeds in the eight-team knockout tournament at the Aichi-Nagoya Games, are also without spinner-allrounder Dewmi Vihanga, who suffered a knee injury befor...

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