Cricket-Sri Lanka batter Silva to miss Asian Games with finger injury

FILE PHOTO: Cricket - ICC Women's World Cup - Sri Lanka v England - R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka - October 11, 2025 Sri Lanka's Nilakshika Silva takes a catch to dismiss England's Nat Sciver-Brunt off the bowling of Sri Lanka's Udeshika Prabodhani REUTERS/Lahiru Harshana/File Photo

Sept 17 (Reuters) - ⁠Sri Lankan hopes of ⁠a women's cricket medal at ‌the Asian Games have suffered a blow after batter Nilakshika Silva ​was ruled out ⁠due to a ⁠fractured finger, the country's board (SLC) ⁠said.

The middle-order ‌batter was Sri Lanka's top scorer ⁠at the Women's Asia Cup ​and ‌helped them reach the final ⁠of Twenty20 ​tournament where they lost to India on Sunday.

Sri ⁠Lanka, one of the ​top seeds in the eight-team knockout tournament at the Aichi-Nagoya Games, ⁠are also without spinner-allrounder Dewmi Vihanga, who suffered a knee injury before the ​Asia Cup.

Sri Lanka's ⁠bid for a medal begins ​against Malaysia on ‌Friday.

(Reporting by Chiranjit ​Ojha in Purulia, India; Editing by Peter Rutherford)