Viyaskanth replaces injured Hasaranga for SRH
HYDERABAD: Sunrisers Hyderabad replaces injured Wanindu Hasaranga with fellow countryman Vijayakanth Viyaskanth of Srilanka for the remainder of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.
Career
The 22-year old Vijayakanth represented his country last year in Asian Games in single T-20 with 1/28 from four overs. Vijayakanth Viyaskanth has joined SRH at his base price of 50 lakh.
Viyaskanth has played 33 T20s and picked 42 wickets with an astonishing economy of 6.76. He was not part of many games in international level but, he has some experience in franchise cricket. He has represented Jaffna Kings in Lanka Premier League, Chattogram Challengers and MI Emirates teams so far. Now he is set join Sunrisers Hyderabad http://sunrisershyderabad.in
Wanindu Hasaranga is suffering from chronice heel pain in his left foot. So he was ruled out of IPL 2024. SRH bought him at his base price of 1.5 crore. But later Sri Lanka Cricket has informed that, he won’t be available for IPL due to injury.
SRH picked Vijayakanth for remainder of IPL 2024, becuase of Hasaranga’s unavailability. So far SRH won 3 matches out of 5 matches. Now, SRH has full of youngsters including recent sensation Nitish Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad etc. and now Viyaskanth.