Asela Gunaratne taken to Colombo for emergency surgery on thumb after breaking digit attempting catch on first morning of Galle Test.
Sri Lanka is down to 10 men for the remainder of the Galle Test after losing star middle-order batsman Asela Gunaratne to a thumb injury that required emergency surgery.
Gunaratne missed a catch in the slips from the edge of India opener Shikhar Dhawan's bat, catching him awkwardly on the thumb and leaving the Sri Lankan writhing in pain on the turf.
Dhawan was on 31 at the time when Gunaratne dropped the catch at second slip and hurt the left thumb on an already heavily-strapped left wrist.
Medics rushed to attend to Gunaratne, and he was later driven back up to the Sri Lankan capital Colombo for surgery on the digit.
