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Matheesha Pathirana (Sinhala: මතීෂ පතිරණ; Tamil: மதிஷ பத்திரன; born 18 December 2002) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer who currently plays limited overs cricket for the national team.
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- January 18, 2003
- Sri Lanka
Dec 18, 2002 · A bowler with a slingy action, Matheesha Pathirana made his international debut for Sri Lanka in August 2022 during the Asia Cup against Afghanistan.
Matheesha represented Desert Vipers in the first edition of DP World ILT20. He took three wickets (in 4 innings) after delivering 90 balls (with 0 Maiden overs), attaining a strike rate of 30 and an average of 50.66. Matheesha Pathirana playing a cricket match for Dessert Vipers in Dubai.
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Pathirana was born on December 18, 2002, in Kandy, Sri Lanka. He was yet to play first-class cricket when he made his IPL debut in 2022 against GT but was part of Sri Lanka's squad for the ICC U19 World Cup in 2020. In 2021, he started playing in the SLC Invitational T20 League and subsequently was named in the 2022 ICC U-19 World Cup in West Indie...
Pathirana has a sling arm action which is similar to that of Malinga. Like his predecessor, he can bowl toe-crunching yorkers and is a potent weapon in the death overs. He came into the spotlight for allegedly bowling at 175 kmph to India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal, during the ICC U-19 World Cup in 2020 in South Africa. However, it was later revealed that ...
Pathirana had registered himself at the IPL auction in 2022 but found no takers. Fortunately for him, Adam Milne got injured soon after his IPL debut for CSK and the Yellow Army got Pathirana as his replacement. Pathirana made his IPL debut against Gujrat Titans on May 15, 2022.
Wearing no. 99 at the back, with a Lasith Malinga-esque bowling action, slinger Pathirana charged in to bowl his first delivery in IPL in the eighth over of CSK's game against Gujarat Titans in IPL 2022. And BOOM! Beaten by pace, Gill took a tad bit of time to bring his bat down for the flick and the ball had gone through his defence and struck his...
After Pathirana, got the wickets of Gill and Pandya, Dhoni backed him to be one of the future superstars in the IPL. “He is an excellent death bowler. Also, with his action, it is slightly difficult to pick. He has got that slower one also. So you have to watch him very carefully. Which means when you spend those extra seconds watching the ball and...
Pathirana was given the ball for the first time in the eighth over. however, he was ripped apart by Glenn Maxwell and he conceded 12 runs. The onslaught continued and he was hit for 16 in his second which forced Dhoni to take him off. However, he came back strongly in the death overs. The 20-year-old has emerged as one of the aces in the CSK armour...
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Apr 22, 2024 · At the cricketing heart of it, Matheesha Pathirana is Chennai Super Kings' sweet revenge. No bowler had wrecked CSK batting orders on the scale Lasith Malinga managed. With 37 wickets against...
Matheesha Pathirana was roped in by the Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2022 as a player replacement for the injured Adam Milne. Born on 18 December 2002 in Kandy, Sri Lanka, the 19-year-old right-arm medium pacer and right-handed batter featured in Sri Lanka's U19 World Cup squads in 2020 and 2022.
