Sri Lanka cricketer Shehan Madushanka has made the headlines for all the wrong reasons. He was detained by the police on Sunday after being found possessing drugs. He has sent him on police remand for two weeks. The cricketer has also been charged for breaking the lockdown rules as he was driving a car with another person despite the nationwide lockdown in place.

As for Madushanka, he has so far played an ODI and a couple of T20Is for Sri Lanka. The pacer made his debut in January 2018 but managed to play only three matches in a match due to injury concerns. Rather he had taken a sensational hat-trick on his ODI debut against Bangladesh. He has scalped a couple of wickets in the as many T20Is he’s played thus far.

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According to the reports in Times Now, Shehan Madushanka was driving his car when police caught and found two grams of heroin. Describing the same, a police official said, “Madushanka was stopped while driving with another person in a car during a nationwide coronavirus curfew. He was carrying just over two grams of heroin when detained in the town of Pannala on Sunday.”

As far as his career is concerned, the 25-year-old has featured in 14 first-class, 19 List-A, and 17 T20 matches in domestic cricket. He was being looked at as the one to watch out for thanks to his pace and the hat-trick he took on debut. But he has been getting injured on a consistent basis since February 2018. And after this incident, it remains to be seen if Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will allow him to play again.

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Sri Lanka has been under lockdown since March 20 due to the ongoing pandemic. The government has restricted the movement of vehicles and encourage social distancing measures. The country has so far registered around 1141 Coronavirus with around nine people losing their lives.