CSK fans good news, Junior Malinga enter CSK for IPL 2022
Chennai Super Kings are two of the most successful teams in IPL history, however, this season has been nothing but a nightmare for the two teams. CSK fans good news, Junior Malinga enter CSK for IPL 2022. Sri Lanka youngster Matheesha Pathirana has been signed by Chennai Super Kings (CSK).
Matheesha Pathirana has been signed by Chennai Super Kings (CSK) as a replacement for New Zealand pacer Adam Milne for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. Milne suffered a hamstring injury in CSK’s first match against Kolkata Knight Riders and has been ruled out for the rest of the tournament.
His replacement, Pathirana, is a young 19-year-old medium-pacer Junior Malinga from Sri Lanka who was part of Sri Lanka’s U19 World Cup squads in 2020 and 2022. He will join CSK at the price of INR 20 Lakh. New Zealand’s Milne suffered a hamstring injury in CSK’s first match against Kolkata Knight Riders on March 26, which was also the season opener, weeks after which he has been ruled out of the tournament.
At senior level, Pathirana has only played one List A game and two T20 matches, but he has been on Super Kings’ radar for a while. Ahead of the 2021 season, they roped in Pathirana as a reserve player alongside the Sri Lanka mystery spinner Maheesh Theekshana.
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Pathirana, who played for Sri Lanka in the U19 World in 2022, and before this, in 2020 as well, has the ability to bowl toe-crunching yorkers, due to which he has often been dubbed as the next Lasith Malinga. In the recent U-19 World Cup, the youngster picked up 7 wickets in four games at an economy of 6.16.
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