Lasith Malinga to Undergo Ankle Surgery Before World CUp 2015

The leading strike bowler for Sri Lankan cricket team Lasith Malinga has to undergo an ankle surgery. Malings has been suffering from some problem with his ankle from quiet a long time. The orthopedic surgeon he has been consulting has advised the fast bowler that he must undergo a surgery reason being that the ankle has detoriated to the extent where surgery is the only treatment option. Methods like cortisone injections and load monitoring which has worked till now might not help any further.

This means the the surgery will keep Malinga out of action for around 16 weeks and he is expected to recover and be available for training in January.  Malinga said that he is hopeful and give his best to be fit and play for the team in the upcoming cricket world cup co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand. "I will do everything I can to be back for the World Cup" is his statement to the press. However at the same time he suggested that Sri Lanka cricket board might groom some your fast bowler so that team has someone prepared to play in his absence.

According to physicians is everything goes well, the fast bowler can get a chance to play few games against New Zealand in Sri Lanka teams tour to NZ and find his form and fitness. Sri Lanka is to play the world cup opening match against New Zealand on Feb 14. See the complete match details of 2015 world cup here.

We wish Lasith all the best for the operation and hope he will recover quickly and play for Sri Lanka in the world cup. It'd be nice to see Malinga Slinga yorkers in world cup. Wonder what a slinga is take a look in the view below:

Malinga Vs Gayle in T20 World cup final today

Its just few hours left and we'll see the final of ICC T20 World cup final today. The match will be played between Sri Lanka and West Indies at Colombo. The scheduled time of the start of the play is 17:30 local (+5:30 GMT). Sri Lanka team has been consistent in last couple of years but unlucky to win a major tournament despite the fact that sometimes team had payment issues. Team Sri Lanka has played 3 finals so far and lost all of them. Two of those finals were in the ICC Cricket world cup tournament of 2007 and 2011 which they lost to Australia and India respectively. The other was the last year T20 final which they lost to England. I am sure Sri Lankan team will not leave any stone upturned to win the finals this time. 

If we consider the West Indies team they haven't won any major tournament in last decade I guess. Thus West Indies team has to fight for their lost pride which they have when they won the first two world cup tournament of 1975 and 1979. 

One interesting thing to watch would be the battle between Lasith Malinga and Chirs Gayle. Both the players are potential match winners who can win matches for their team of their own. 

Let wait and see whats on  the cards for both the teams but definitely we'll have only one champion and it'll take only 2-3 hours for us to see the new T20 champion today. 

Best Wishes to both the teams from http://icccricket.blogspot.com