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Dimuth Karunaratne rues not being able to play left-arm spinners in warm-up tie

By Saurabh Sharma November 30, -0001 • 00:00 AM View: 1862

Kolkata, Nov 11 (CRICKETNMORE): Sri Lanka opener Dimuth Karunaratne, who scored a half century against Board President's XI in a warm-up game here on Saturday, rued the fact that they were not given left-arm spinners to practice against ahead of the first cricket Test against India from Thursday.

At stumps, Sri Lanka declared on 411/6 with Karunaratne making a 50 off 62 deliveries.

TAGS Sri Lanka Cricket Team Dimuth Karunaratne

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