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ICC Tweets Full Names of Sri Lanka players After Increased Character Limit

Written by Vipin Darwade

As the social networking site Twitter has now doubled it’s 140 character limit to 280, Twitterati couldn’t contain their excitement with the newly introduced feature, as they posted various kind of tweets to celebrate the occasion.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) too joined the fun, and published a rather long tweet, that featured the full-names of some of the Sri Lankan cricketers. ICC tweeted full names of former fast bowler Chaminda Vaas, off-spinner Kumar Dharmasena, Sri Lanka’s current wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella and Legendary Rangana Herath.

“Thanks to #280characters, we can now use the following names! 🇱🇰

Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas
Handunnettige Deepthi Priyantha Kumar Dharmasena
Dickwella Patabendige Dilantha Niroshan Dickwella
Herath Mudiyanselage Rangana Keerthi Bandara Herath” the tweet reads.

The Sri Lankan team is currently in India for a full tour that includes three tests, three ODIs and three T20s. They started their tour with a warm-up game against the BPXI, at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University Campus Grounds, yesterday. After that the Lankans will play a three match test series beginning November 16.

After playing the first Test in Kolkata from November 16-20, the teams move to Nagpur for the second, which starts on November 24. The final Test will be played in Delhi between December 2-6.

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