Sri Lanka endure big blow as Matheesha Pathirana walks off the sphere after struggling shoulder harm

Sri Lanka’s beautiful begin with the ball within the ongoing third T20I towards India turned a bit bitter as their star pacer Matheesha Pathirana needed to stroll off the sphere owing to a shoulder harm.

The fitting-arm pacer ended up hurting his shoulder whereas fielding. The incident occurred within the seventh over. On the ultimate ball of the over, Chamindu Wickramasinghe bowled one exterior the off stump to Shivam Dube and the latter hit the ball in direction of deep backward level.

The ball appeared destined to succeed in the boundary however Matheesha Pathirana had different plans. The Sri Lanka pacer, nevertheless, had different concepts as he got here up with a sliding effort to cease the ball. Nonetheless, he ended up injuring his shoulder whereas sliding on the sphere and needed to depart the sphere straightaway.

Watch the save from Matheesha Pathirana:

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Matheesha Pathirana had not bowled any over until that time in that recreation and it seems to be extremely unlikely that the Sri Lankan group administration could be prepared to take any threat together with his shoulder. The Sri Lankan group administration might be hoping that the harm is just not severe and the pacer stays match for the upcoming three-match ODI sequence towards Workforce India.

Within the first two video games of the continuing sequence, Matheesha Pathirana picked up 5 wickets. He picked up 4 wickets for 40 runs within the first recreation earlier than taking 1 for 18 within the second. Nonetheless, Sri Lanka misplaced each the video games as India clinched the three-match sequence.

Sri Lanka on prime:

Speaking concerning the ongoing recreation, Sri Lanka are firmly within the driver’s seat. The sport began on an excellent word for them as they gained the toss and opted to area first. Sri Lanka’s bowlers went on to justify the choice by taking 4 wickets contained in the powerplay.

Maheesh Theekshana gave Sri Lanka the primary breakthrough by dismissing Yashasvi Jaiswal earlier than Wickramasinghe dismissed Sanju Samson. Rinku Singh and Suryakumar Yadav couldn’t do a lot with the bat both as India discovered themselves reeling at 30 for 4 within the sixth over. On the time of scripting this report, the Males in Blue had been on 74 for five after 12 overs.