Wanindu Hasaranga ruled out of IPL 2024 due to injury, Sunrisers Hyderabad replaces him with...

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IPL 2024: Twenty-two year old Sri Lankan spinner Vijayakanth Viyaskanth has been chosen to replace Sunrisers Hyderabad legspinner Wanindu Hasaranga. Hasaranga was ruled out of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 due to chronic heel pain in his left foot, ESPNcricinfo reported on Tuesday. Follow PBKS vs SRH 2024 IPL Live Score here "Wanindu Hasaranga will be unavailable for the season due to injury.

We would like to wish him a speedy recovery. Sri Lankan spinner Vijayakanth Viyaskanth has joined the squad as his replacement for the rest of #IPL2024. Welcome, Viyaskanth!", SunRisers Hyderabad tweeted.

This is the first time that Viyaskanth had got the chance to play an IPL match. The 22-year-old, who has played one T20I for Sri Lanka, is a like-for-like replacement for leg-spinner Hasaranga. He has joined Sunrisers for a base price of ₹50 lakh.

ALSO READ: Tomorrow's IPL Match: RR vs GT; who’ll win Rajasthan vs Gujarat clash? Fantasy team, pitch report, and more According to ESPNcricinfo, Vijaykanth Viyaskanth first rose to prominence in December 2020, when he became the youngest player at 18 years and 364 days to feature in the Lanka Premier League for Jaffna Stallions. ALSO READ: 'MS Dhoni's win was unexpected….': Virender Sehwag's ‘bigger expectations’ from Thala remark after CSK vs KKR IPL match “In that tournament, he also became the first born-and-bred player from Jaffna, in Sri Lanka's northern tip and once the epicentre of a three-decade-long civil war, to appear in an internationally televised game," the report said. Viyaskanth had made his Sri Lanka debut at the Asian Games in Hangzhou.