Mathisa Patirana made his ODI debut against AfghanistanImage Credit source: AFP
New Delhi. In the past, MS Dhoni became the IPL champion for the 5th time. Under his captaincy, Chennai Super Kings defeated Gujarat Titans by 5 wickets in the final. The hero of the victory was definitely Ravindra Jadeja, who hit a six and a four off the last 2 balls, but Chennai’s hero Mathisa Patirana was also there, who took Chennai to the finals. With his bowling, he impressed Dhoni so much that Dhoni even got into a fight with the umpire in a match for him.
Due to going out of the ground for some time, when the umpire refused to bowl to Patirana, Dhoni stuck to his insistence and kept the umpire talking for about 5 minutes, after which Patirana was eligible to bowl the 16th over. He made Dhoni the champion. Due to the strong performance of IPL, he got a chance to debut in ODI cricket for Sri Lanka, but he got beaten up in his own house.
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Patirana forgets to bowl
A 3-match ODI series is being played between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Despite Sri Lanka being at home, they could not take advantage of this in the first ODI and lost the match by 6 wickets. Seeing the way Patirana bowled in his debut match, it seemed that he forgot to bowl. The Afghan batsmen blew them to pieces. Scored runs on his balls. He proved to be the most expensive bowler of Sri Lanka. He gave away 66 runs in 8.5 overs.
16 wife ball
Patirana got the wicket of Rahmat Shah, who scored 55 runs. He got a big wicket, but by then it was too late. He bowled 16 wide balls in his 8.5 overs. Patirana took 19 wickets in 12 matches in the IPL, but in his very first ODI, he gave away runs. Due to the poor bowling of Patirana, Afghanistan had already achieved the target of 269 runs with 19 balls at the loss of 4 wickets. Batting first, Sri Lanka scored 268 runs in 50 overs. Charat Aslanka scored the maximum 91 runs. The target given by Sri Lanka was easily achieved by Afghanistan on the basis of Ibrahim Zadran’s 98 runs and Rahmat Shah’s 55 runs.
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