Sri Lanka T20 squad for Australia series :

All-rounder Mathews named vice-captain

Paceman Lasith Malinga ruled out due to injury :

COLOMBO, July 30 (AFP) - Sri Lanka Cricket on Saturday named a 16-man squad for the Twenty20 games against Australia next month.

The teams will play two Twenty20 games on August 6 and 8 at the newly-built Pallakelle International Stadium in the central town of Kandy, which will also host the opening one-dayer and the second Test match.

All-rounder Angelo Mathews got the vice-captain job, after being overlooked for the post during the recent tour of England.Paceman Lasith Malinga has not been included in the squad as he is nursing an injury. He will miss Sri Lanka's two-match Twenty20 series against Australia, starting in Pallekele on Saturday (6) after finding a place in the list of 20 probables for the home series. The selectors hope that Malinga would be fit for the five-match ODI series against Australia starting on August 10.

Sri Lanka have drafted in uncapped 25-year-old all-rounder Shaminda Eranga of Chilaw Marians. Missing from the 16-member Sri Lanka squad is all-rounder Chamara Kapugedera, who was part of Sri Lanka's World Cup squad but was overlooked for the recent ODI away series against England. Dilruwan Perera, off-spinner and a useful bat, returns to the side after playing his last of the four ODIs against Australia way back in February, 2008.

The itinerary also includes a five one-day game series and three Tests. The Test and one-day squads will be announced next month.

Squad: Tillakaratne Dilshan (captain), Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Mathews (vice-captain), Jeevan Mendis, Dilruwan Perera, Thisara Perera, Dhammika Prasad, Suranga Lakmal, Ajantha Mendis, Nuwan Kulasekara, Suraj Randiv, Rangana Herath, Chamara Silva and Shaminda Eranga.