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  by    Atif Azam   •    Published on   Wed, May 31, 2023, 06:52 AM Share Tweet Dimuth Karunaratne has been playing for the Shinepukur Cricket Club © Cricbuzz It has been more than two years since he last played ODI cricket but Dimuth Karunaratne feels he still has something to offer to the team in the 50-over format. Recalled to the side for the ODI series against Afghanistan, the 35-year-old has been preparing for it by playing in the Dhaka Premier League, representing the Shinepukur Cricket Club. Karunaratne, who led Sri Lanka in the 2019 ODI World Cup, played three more series after that before being left out of the side. "I played only a few games for Sri Lanka (after the 2019 World Cup) and then a couple of matches for club cricket and nothing else, and I just played lots of red-ball cricket. When I got dropped from the national side I did really well and I had an average of more than 40 at that time and scored a few fifties and at the same ...

Hazlewood is set to return for the first time since January this year © Getty Josh Hazlewood, the Australia pacer, sounded confident about his fitness ahead of the World Test Championship final following a training session at the Formby Cricket Club in West Lancashire on Tuesday (May 30). Hazlewood, who has been hampered by a side issue in recent times, had to cut short his IPL campaign with the Royal Challengers due to the problem resurfacing. He got to play only three matches in the T20 league as he was recovering from an Achilles injury which forced him to miss the four Tests against India and the subsequent three-match ODI series. "My fitness is pretty good and it is just a matter of ticking off every session from here until that date (June 7) basically," Hazlewood told the ICC after Australia's first official practice session. "We will probably have anywhere from three to four more sessions - bat versus ball and then a couple of longer days in the nets as well o...