Top 6 teams with the most number of players used in the World Test Championship thus far

3. Sri Lanka

At the third spot is a side that has so far struggled in the World Test Championship. The Islanders have played 7 matches thus far, but have managed to win just one match. Sri Lanka have lost 5 matches and drawn one game, and have accumulated 80 points in the tournament till now.

In the 7 matches that they have played, Sri Lanka have used 21 players thus far. The highest run-scorer for Sri Lanka with the willow is Dimuth Karunaratne. The Lankan skipper has featured in 6 matches in the World Test Championship and has scored 480 runs at an average of 43.63, including 2 hundreds and 2 fifties. On the bowling front, Lasith Embuldeniya has been the pick of the bowlers for the Lankans, having scalped 16 wickets thus far.

Niroshan Dickwella and Kusal Mendis are the two players who have featured in every match that Sri Lanka have played in the ICC World Test Championship. Sri Lanka will next take on Joe Root and his men in the second and final Test of the short two-match series at Galle on January 22, 2021.