IPL 2024: Rituraj Gaikwad gives special title to Mathisha Pathirana after his brilliant performance against MI

Tezzbuzz Team

Tezzbuzz|15-04-2024

Lucknow: In the match played against Mumbai Indians (MI) at Wankhede Stadium, Chennai Super Kings won by 20 runs. This is their first win away from home in IPL 2024 and after winning this match, CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad has given a new name to his team's young fast bowler Mathisha Pathirana. Let us tell you that in this match, Pathirana bowled excellently and took 4 wickets and turned the match in favor of Chennai. It was the result of his bowling that Chennai was successful in winning this match.

The right-arm fast bowler gave away 28 runs in 4 overs against MI and sent 4 batsmen to the pavilion. He brought his team back into the match by dismissing openers Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav in his very first over and after that, by taking two more wickets, this player ensured Chennai's victory in the match. After the victory in the match, captain Gaikwad looked very happy with the 21-year-old and while talking in the post match presentation, he gave him a new name.

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He said, “We allowed 60 runs in the first six overs and then after that you have to perform well with batting and bowling on a ground like Wankhede. Our Malinga bowled very well today and also bowled excellent yorker balls. The bowling of Tushar Deshpande and Shardul Thakur also cannot be forgotten.

Let us tell you that Pathirana is also called Baby Malinga because he bowls like him. Mathisha also has the same bowling action as Malinga used to swing his hands and now Rituraj has also called him Baby Malinga. Batting first in this match, CSK scored 206 runs at the loss of 4 wickets and then restricted MI to 186 runs. The biggest role in this was played by the right arm fast bowler.

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While talking after the end of the match, Rituraj also made a big statement about MS Dhoni. He said, “The three sixes hit by our young wicketkeeper helped the team. In the end, that became the difference between the team's victory and defeat.”

MS Dhoni hit three sixes in one over of Hardik Pandya.

Let us tell you that while batting in the first innings, Dhoni had hit three consecutive sixes in one over of Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya. In fact, to bowl the last over for MI, Pandya himself and Dhoni got a chance to bat on the third ball and he hit a six on the very first ball. After this, he hit two more sixes in a row and took CSK's score beyond 200.

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