Watch, IPL 2023: Matheesha Pathirana dismisses Nehal Wadhera with a superb yorker in CSK vs MI

 Sri Lanka’s Matheesha Pathirana bowled an aggressive afterlife overs spell as Chennai Super Kings formed accomplished rivals Mumbai Indians by six wickets in a affray of IPL heavyweights on Saturday.


Pathirana, who has a Lasith Malinga appearance casting action, alternate abstracts of 3-15 to absolute five-time winners Mumbai to 139-8 in Chennai. New Zealand opener Devon Conway fabricated 44 as M.S. Dhoni’s Chennai – four-time IPL champions – romped home with 14 assurance to spare.



It was a acute win for CSK according to MS Dhoni, to go a little bright from the mid-table cartage jam. Chennai confused up to 13 credibility and additional on the table.


Batting first, MI almost had any drive in Chennai and were belted to 139/8. CSK again coasted to a win with six wickets and 14 assurance to spare. Batting first, MI almost had any drive in Chennai and were belted to 139/8. CSK again coasted to a win with six wickets and 14 assurance to spare. He was out for a additional beeline duck.


The awkward Conway put on a able aperture angle of 46 with Ruturaj Gaikwad and confused additional in the batting blueprint with 458 runs abaft Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Faf du Plessis (466).


The 41-year-old Dhoni hit the acceptable run at Chennai’s M.A. Chidambaram Stadium as fans, who are advancing in numbers to acclamation the superstar cricketer in what it is accepted to be his aftermost IPL division as player, went wild.


Shivam Dube hit an best 26 off 18 assurance as Chennai jumped a atom to additional abaft table-toppers Gujarat Titans in the 10-team table.


Chennai’s bowlers set up achievement afterwards they ashamed the Mumbai top-order including the key wickets of Cameron Green, out for six afterwards aperture the batting, and skipper Rohit Sharma, absolved for a additional alternating avoid afterwards advancing at cardinal three.



The aperture clip duo of Deepak Chahar and Tushar Deshpande bargain Mumbai to 3-14 central three overs afore Nehal Wadhera (64) and Suryakumar Yadav (26) attempted to apple-pie in their angle of 55.


Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja beatific aback Suryakumar and the 20-year-old Pathirana, who has played one T20 for Sri Lanka, bowled Wadhera with a yorker – his capital weapon – to booty the beef out of the Mumbai batting.


Pathirana with a different anniversary of his easily in advanced of his chest and eyes in brainwork said, “I’m a die-hard fan of Cristiano Ronaldo and accept modelled my anniversary afterwards him.”


Wickets kept aerobatics as the alarming Tim David fell for two off Deshpande and Pathirana got South African concoction Tristan Stubbs for 20.


Dhoni accepted Pathirana, saying, “People who don’t accept any apple-pie action, batsmen accept a difficult time acrimonious it. But his consistency, clip makes him special.”



Dhoni brash the youngster to break abroad from Test candid and apply on arena “only ICC tournaments with ODIs”.


TEAM P W L NR NRR PTS

GT 10 7 3 0 0.752 14

CSK 11 6 4 1 0.409 13

LSG 10 5 4 1 0.639 11

RR 10 5 5 0 0.448 10

RCB 9 5 4 0 -0.030 10

MI 10 5 5 0 -0.454 10

PBKS 10 5 5 0 -0.472 10

KKR 10 4 6 0 -0.103 8

SRH 9 3 6 0 -0.540 6

DC 9 3 6 0 -0.768 6

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