Dhananjaya joins Sri Lanka squad after his father's funeral

12 days after unidentified men in Colombo gunned down his father, Dhananjaya de Silva has decided to join the Sri Lankan Test side in West Indies. However, it is unlikely that will make it to the playing XI for the first Test match as he would land in West Indian on Monday night after a 30-hour long journey. The first Test begins from Wednesday.

12 days after unidentified men in Colombo gunned down his father, Dhananjaya de Silva has decided to join the Sri Lankan Test side in West Indies. However, it is unlikely that will make it to the playing XI for the first Test match as he would land in West Indian on Monday night after a 30-hour long journey. The first Test begins from Wednesday.

Earlier, Dhananjaya had withdrawn from the West Indies tour following his father’s untimely death. The allrounder, however, changed his mind after his father’s funeral and decided to get back to cricket.

Dhananjaya’s father Ranjan, a local politician, was gunned down in Ratmalana, a suburb of the capital Colombo, close to midnight on 23^rd May, police said.

Sri Lanka Cricket decided against naming a replacement for the 26-year-old and instead, extend their full support.

Dhananjaya is Sri Lanka's incumbent No. 3 batsman, having hit two centuries in his four most-recent innings there. This included a match-saving fourth-innings ton in Delhi, last December.