Matheesha and Dilshan doubtful for IPL 2024

Mar. 20 (wisden) - Sri Lankan star pacers Matheesha Pathirana and Dilshan Madushanka face uncertainty ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, set to kick off this Friday (22).

Both players are battling hamstring injuries, casting doubt over their participation in the tournament.

IPL 2024 squads: Complete team lists:

• Chennai Super Kings

MS Dhoni (c), Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajay Mandal, Mukesh Choudhary, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Rachin Ravindra, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman, Avanish Rao Aravelly.

Doubtful for at least a part of IPL 2024: Devon Conway (thumb injury – not expected to be fit till May), Matheesha Pathirana (hamstring injury)

• Delhi Capitals

Rishabh Pant (c), Tristan Stubbs, Abishek Porel, Kumar Kushagra, Ricky Bhui, Shai Hope,  Prithvi Shaw, Harry Brook, Yash Dhull, Swastik Chikara, David Warner,  Pravin Dubey, Axar Patel, Mitchell Marsh, Lalit Yadav, Vicky Ostwal, Sumit Kumar, Anrich Nortje, Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Jhye Richardson, Rasikh Salam.

Ruled out: Harry Brook, Lungi Ngidi (replaced by Jake Fraser-McGurk)

• Gujarat Titans

Shubman Gill (c), David Miller, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, B. Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Noor Ahmad, Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma, Azmatullah Omarzai, Umesh Yadav, Shahrukh Khan, Sushant Mishra, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson.

Ruled out: Mohammed Shami (replacement not named)

Doubtful for at least a part of IPL 2024: Robin Minz (injuries due to bike accident)

• Kolkata Knight Riders

Shreyas Iyer (c), K.S. Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Phil Salt, Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman.

Ruled out: Jason Roy (replaced by Phil Salt), Gus Atkinson (replaced by Dushmantha Chameera)

• Lucknow Super Giants

Kl Rahul (c), Quinton de Kock, Nicolas Pooran, Devdutt Padikkal, Ayush Badoni, Ashton Turner, Deepak Hooda, K. Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Prerak Mankad, Yudhvir Singh Charak, David Willey, Arshin Kulkarni, Md. Arshad Khan, Shamar Joseph, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen-ul-Haq, Shivam Mavi, Manimaran Siddarth.

Ruled out: Mark Wood (replaced by Shamar Joseph)

• Mumbai Indians

Hardik Pandya (c), Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Luke Wood, Romario Shepherd, Gerald Coetzee, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma, Luke Wood, Dilshan Madushanka.

Ruled out: Jason Behrendorff (replaced by Luke Wood)

Doubtful for at least a part of IPL 2024: Suryakumar Yadav (ankle injury), Gerald Coetzee (groin injury), Dilshan Madushanka (hamstring injury)

• Punjab Kings

Shikhar Dhawan (c), Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Harpreet Bhatia, Rilee Rossouw, Shashank Singh, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Shivam Singh, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Harshal Patel, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Prince Choudhary

• Rajasthan Royals

Sanju Samson (c), Jos Buttler, Dhruv Jurel, Kunal Rathore, Donovan Ferreira, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Ravichandran Ashwin, Abid Mushtaq, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Sandeep Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Adam Zampa, Nandre Burger, Avesh Khan.

Ruled out: Prasidh Krishna (replacement not named)

• Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Faf du Plessis (c), Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Cameron Green*, Alzarri Joseph, Yash Dayal, Tom Curran, Lockie Ferguson, Swapnil Singh, Saurav Chauhan

• Sunrisers Hyderabad

Pat Cummins (c), Glenn Phillips, Upendra Singh Yadav, Heinrich Klaasen,  Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Rahul Tripathi, Mayank Agarwal, Travis Head, Anmolpreet Singh,  Washington Sundar, Abhishek Sharma, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sanvir Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Marco Jansen, T Natarajan, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Jhathavedh Subramanyan.