Sri Lanka cricket will introduce the brand-new T10 Super League tournament on Wednesday where star cricketers Matheesha Pathirana, Dasun Shanka, and Jason Roy will feature in an exciting battle. Angelo Mathews will lead the Colombo Jaguars with legendary Chaminda Vaas supporting him as head coach.
Sri Lanka registered an impressive 2-1 T20I series win over West Indies and are favourites to dominate the three-match ODI series having beaten India in their last 50-over bilateral series at home. Sri Lanka will be without their premier pacer Matheesha Pathirana for the West Indies series.
Sri Lanka have been rattled by injuries to key players in the home series against India. Multiple players got ruled out even before the T20I series and once again, they lost a couple of their cricketers just before the ODI leg of the tour. Can they beat India in this series?
Chennai Super Kings' rising fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana emerged as the most expensive singings in Lanaka Premier League auction history after being acquired by Colombo Strikers for a whopping USD 120,000 on Tuesday.
Matheesha Pathirana has been the top performer for the defending champions with 13 wickets in just six innings at an impressive economy rate of 7.68 but is struggling with a hamstring injury and missed Chennai's last two fixtures against Punjab Kings.
CSK vs PBKS IPL 2024 Playing XIs: Stand-in Captain Sam Curran won the crucial toss as Punjab Kings elected to bowl first against Chennai Super Kings at MA Chidambaram Stadium. Chennai Super Kings dropped Matheesha Pathirana and Tushar Deshpande from their last starting eleven.
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) beat the Mumbai Indians by 20 runs to register their fourth win of the 2024 edition of the IPL. Rohit Sharma smashed his second IPL hundred, however, no other batter supported him long enough and Matheesha Pathirana's four-wicket haul ended up being the difference.
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will take on the Mumbai Indians (MI) in probably the biggest match of the 2024 edition of the IPL so far and will be looking to continue their winning momentum at the Wankhede Stadium. Coming from a slow surface at Chepauk, CSK are expected to make a change or two.
Sri Lankan pacer Matheesha Pathirana was the star of the show in the field for the Chennai Super Kings against the Delhi Capitals as he grabbed one of the most stunning catches in the 30-yard circle. Pathirana's diving catch even surprised CSK skipper MS Dhoni, who was seen applauding the pacer.
Chennai Super Kings (CSK), led by MS Dhoni, will enter the 2024 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) as defending champions. They are set to lock horns against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the opening game of the season but injury concerns have plagued them.
Chennai Super Kings will begin their IPL (Indian Premier League) 2024 campaign with the curtain raiser of the season against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on March 22.
The first T20I of the three-match series between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh went down the wire with the visitors holding their nerve to win by three runs. Despite losing early wickets, Bangladesh stayed in the hunt right till the end and Sri Lanka's bowling played a part in it as well.
Matheesha Pathirana, 20, suffered a shoulder niggle during World Cup 2023 game against Pakistan on October 10 and has already returned to Sri Lanka. Angelo Mathews comes in as his replacement having already joined the team as a travelling reserve.
Indian opener Shubman Gill top-scored with 27* runs against Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup 2023 final to finish the tournament as the leading run-scorer with 302 runs in six innings.
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