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Vishmi Gunaratne on Thursday was named as Sri Lanka's skipper for the inaugural edition of the ICC U19 Women's T20 World Cup, to be held from January 14-29 in South Africa.

Vishmi, 17, has played nine T20Is and also made her ODI debut last year, apart from playing in the Women's T20 event at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. She is the only player in the Sri Lanka U19 team who has senior women's team experience. Vishmi was also the captain of Sri Lanka U19 team which had taken part in a quadrangular T20 series in Visakhapatnam late last year.