Cricket World Cup: Sri Lanka deny Tillarakatne Dilshan failed drugs test

• Sri Lanka manager says batsman did not take test

• 'This is just rubbish going around the media'

Tillakaratne Dilshan prepares to take a catch while in training with Sri Lanka team-mates last week. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Reuters

Sri Lanka's team manager, Brian Thomas, has strongly denied reports that the opening batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan has failed a drugs test at the World Cup.

Reports had suggested the 34-year-old had returned a positive test, but Thomas says the player did not even take a test.

"The only two cricketers who underwent the test were Chamara Silva and Ajantha Mendis," Thomas told espnstar.com. "These are all rubbish going around the media here. These are all false reports."

Shane Warne is the only player to have failed a drugs test at a World Cup, having tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide and amiloride in 2003.

Sri Lanka face Zimbabwe in Kandy on Thursday.