Sri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur said Thursday that stars Angelo Mathews and Dimuth Karunaratne could make a return to the squad, despite their axing as players wrangle with the national board over wages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sri Lanka left Mathews, Karunaratne, Dinesh Chandimal, and senior players behind for their three one-day internationals in Bangladesh.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Players are refusing to sign new contracts that would cut fees for some by 40 percent.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Changes were also ordered after Sri Lanka lost a one-day series in West Indies 3-0 in March. Kusal Perera has been made captain for this series while the selectors recalled Kusal Mendis and made him vice-captain.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"I think we just took the team in a direction. There's certainly no door closed on any of them," Arthur said in Dhaka.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"Angelo and Chandi are fantastic cricketers who are very much part of our Test unit at the moment."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Arthur said Sri Lanka had to start looking at players for the 2023 World Cup.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"That's the balancing act when you are transitioning a team, how you get it right. We will keep tweaking that until you do it properly," he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Arthur said Sri Lanka needed a tougher middle order and named Kushal Perera, Kusal Mendis, wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella and Dhananjaya de Silva as the names the team would be "banking on".<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In Friday's final match they will be battling to avoid a first whitewash defeat to Bangladesh.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"We battled to come to terms with the spinners, which is very surprising for me," said Arthur.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"The batsmen I see out in the nets are totally different to the batsmen who have gone out in the middle. Whether it is performing under pressure or fear of failure – those are things you have to take out of their mind," he added. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sri Lanka also need a win to wrack up points for the International Cricket Council's ODI super league, which counts as qualification for the 2023 World Cup.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"We want to close off here with a good, hard, disciplined performance tomorrow. We want to take a win home," said Arthur.
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