Sri Lankan spinner turned the face of braveness so far as getting by way of his nine-over spell was involved within the Asia Cup 2023 Tremendous Fours encounter in opposition to Pakistan in Colombo on Thursday, September 14. Theekshana pulled his hamstring whereas diving to cease the ball from going in direction of the boundary. He failed to gather the ball, Rizwan accomplished his fifty and he ended up injuring himself.
Nevertheless, regardless of hobbling, Theekshana got here to bowl within the thirty fourth over. Theekshana was limping in his run-up and even gave a boundary within the over, nonetheless, he virtually ended up taking a wicket on the final ball. Theekshana stored the size shorter but it surely was a faster and Iftikhar Ahmed misinterpret the tempo and was late on the shot. The ball hit him on the leg on the leg stump and appeared to be happening.
The umpire thought so and denied the enchantment and the keeper wasn’t too assured as properly to tempt the skipper Dasun Shanaka to take the overview. Despite the fact that Theekshana was assured, Shanaka did not go for the overview and it appeared like an accurate name.
But it surely wasn’t to be because the replays confirmed that it was hitting the stumps and Theekshana, who was getting therapy from the physio on the boundary line noticed it and was livid. Theekshana was actually offended and slapped the bottom a few time in disgust as had they gone for the overview, Iftikhar might have been dismissed for simply 21 runs.
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Iftikhar made the many of the reprieve as he scored a superb 47 and stitched a 108-run partnership with Mohammad Rizwan, who slammed an unbeaten 86 off simply 73 balls. Iftikhar and Rizwan’s partnership helped Pakistan get to a robust rating of 252 runs in 42 overs from a tough scenario they had been in, at 130/5.
Sri Lanka have made begin however they’ll want each their set batters Kusal Mendis and Sadeera Samarawickrama to bat lengthy to assist their facet chase the goal.
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