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Ruchira Perera, the left arm tearaway paceman will make the tour of South Africa beginning this month.

The cricket management has decided to take Perera along so that he could get accustomed to bowling on the bouncy pitches there.

Perera who had a heartbreak tour of England where his action was reported as suspect went through corrective therapy but was surprisingly ignored when the team to South Africa for a Test and triangular series was picked. With Sri Lanka making a determined effort to emulate the 1996 feat where we won the World Cup under Arjuna Ranatunga, Perera had he been picked to South Africa would have learnt by the experience and been ready to torment opponents in the World Cup.

While inexperienced pacemen were given the nod to South Africa, Perera who stunned the England batsmen with his tremendous pace and ability to get the ball to rise disconcertingly off a good length was dropped.

The cricket management has done right in deciding to take Ruchira Perera to Protea land.

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