Pathum Nissanka
Pathum Nissanka Batting: Sri Lankan team defeated West Indies by 73 runs in the second T20 match. Pathum Nissanka performed brilliantly for Sri Lanka in this match and led the team to victory by scoring a half-century. Batting first, Sri Lanka gave West Indies a target of 162 runs to win, in response to which West Indies was all out for just 89 runs.
Nissanka batted excellently
Sri Lanka made a steady start against West Indies. The team had scored 8 runs without any loss after three overs. After this, Pathum Nissanka batted strongly in the fourth over. He hit a total of 6 fours on 6 balls of this over of Shamar Joseph. The four that Nissanka had hit on the first ball. He came as a leg bye. For this reason only five fours were added to his account. West Indies bowler Shamar Joseph also bowled a wide in this over. In this way a total of 25 runs were scored in the over. Now the video of Nissanka continuously hitting fours is going viral on social media.
Debut in the year 2022
Pathum Nissanka has played excellent innings for Sri Lanka in the last few matches and has become an important link of the Sri Lankan team in all three formats. He made his debut for Sri Lanka in T20 International in the year 2021. Since then he has scored 784 runs in 13 T20 International matches for the team.
Match won with Nissanka’s half century
Pathum Nissanka scored a total of 54 runs in 49 balls against West Indies, which included 9 fours and a six. Apart from them, Kusal Mendis scored 26 runs, Kamendu Mendis scored 19 runs. It is because of these players that the Sri Lankan team was successful in scoring 162 runs. Nissanka was given the Player of the Match award for his excellent performance. After the batsmen, Sri Lankan bowlers also performed well. Dunith Vellalaghe took 3 wickets. Apart from them, Charith Asalanka, Mahesh Tikshina, Wanindu Hasaranga took 2 wickets each. West Indies batsmen could not stand against these bowlers. Rovman Powell scored the maximum 20 runs for the team.
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