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Sri Lanka bat first at RPS as Chandimal, Kamindu return for series decider
The Island
|July 17, 2025
Dinesh Chandimal returned to the side featuring in his first T-20I in more than three years when he was picked ahead of the struggling Avishka Fernando.
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat in the winner-takes-all third and final Twenty20 International against Bangladesh at R. Premadasa Stadium on Wednesday, ringing in two key changes to the XI that crashed and burned at Dambulla.
Veteran campaigner Dinesh Chandimal and the versatile Kamindu Mendis returned to the side in place of the misfiring Avishka Fernando and all-rounder Chamika Karunaratne, as the hosts looked to shore up a brittle middle order that folded for a paltry 94 in the previous outing — their lowest T20I total at home.
This story is from the July 17, 2025 edition of The Island.
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