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The young Sri Lankan pacer Matheesha Pathirana stunned everyone with his sensational outings while playing for Chennai Super Kings in the recently-concluded Indian Premier League 2023. He played a crucial role in CSK’s journey to the title triumph throughout the entire tournament. Pathirana was one of the key bowlers, skipper MS Dhoni trusted the most when it was required in the death overs.
Apart from that, the youngster has joined the national squad of Sri Lanka ahead of the bilateral series. Notably, Pathirana is likely to make his ODI debut in the upcoming series against Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, a section of cricket fans took to the micro-blogging site Twitter to come up with a lot of different kinds of reactions ahead of Pathirana’s ODI debut at the highest level of the game. Some of the fans credited CSK skipper MS Dhoni for this success achieved by Pathirana in such a short time period. Whereas a few other fans also lavished praise on the Sri Lankan bowling prodigy for his heroics in the IPL 2023.
Here’s how fans reacted:
Dhoni bhai ne isko dusra malinga bana diya ab yeh india ko pelega 😭😭😭
— Ketulsinh Dodiya (@StarKin5857) June 1, 2023
IPL being his success and confident booster
— Rachel (@iamrachel1812) June 1, 2023
Best bowler in the world
— LA LA LAND ☭ (@Pratikeighteen) June 1, 2023
They got malinga's replacement.
— Mukesh Ambani (Parody) (@AmbaniHu) June 1, 2023
Yellow suits him more than blue
— Shravan VFC👐 (@vfc_shravan) June 1, 2023
Pathi boyyyyyyy
— Manthan Kshirsagar (@Manthan71845) June 1, 2023
GOAT in the making
— Tanmay Upadhyay (@lmTanmay74) June 1, 2023
Lejend pic.twitter.com/x98dujsYql
— Mogga Anilkumar Rajaka (@MoggaAnilkumar) June 1, 2023
Better ipl Bowler than siraj
— LOYAL CSK FAN (@cskfanforlife) June 1, 2023
Speaking of his performances in the Indian Premier League 2023, Pathirana scalped 19 wickets in 12 innings of the 12 matches, he played for the Super Kings in the tournament. He scalped wickets with a fair average of 19.53 including the best figures of 3/15. Interestingly, he had also played the IPL last year when he could appear only in 2 innings and scalped just 2 wickets.
Talking about the upcoming series between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, the three-match ODI series will start tomorrow the 2nd of June from 10.00 am with the first ODI at Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium in Hambantota.
After the end of this home ODI series against Afghanistan, Sri Lanka will start their campaign, in the Global Qualifier for the World Cup 2023. The Dasun Shanaka-led side will play their first match against UAE in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.