The vintage MS Dhoni leading side of Chennai Super Kings is witnessing pure horror in this 15th edition of the Indian Premier League. With the defeat against Gujarat Titans by 7 wickets, they have lost the 9th game of their league phase voyage in the IPL 2022. While defending the total of just 134-runs CSK failed to curb Gujarat before the target and also the storm of Wriddhiman Saha’s cameo 67(57). But in between all the drama a young Srilankan pacer Matheesha Pathirana has bowled an excellent spell of 2/24 (3.1) with an economy of 7.58.
This highly impressive debut spell of Lankan pacer has caught the attention of captain cool MS Dhoni and he showered acknowledgements on him in his post-match discourse. Dhoni said that “He’s an excellent death bowler; a bit similar to Malinga. With his bowling action, the margin of error is slim as he won’t get much bounce and with the difference of a yard, his ball will bounce a lot.”He’s got a good slower one and it will be slightly difficult to pick him if he bowls at a consistent pace and with this action. It means that you got to watch him very carefully and people will have to spend extra seconds watching the ball”.
“He’s an excellent death bowler; a bit similar to Malinga”.
Furthermore, he talked about the situational flaws which went wrong for CSK, “To start off, batting first wasn’t a really good idea. It was tough for the batters to hit the faster bowlers in the first half, spinners-wise it was pretty even in both halves. It was coming on better in the second half. Other than that, looking at the composition to the guys we gave a chance, it was slightly tough for them in the middle overs”.
