{"id":19912,"date":"2022-05-15T21:48:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=221986"},"modified":"2022-05-15T21:48:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:18:35","slug":"ipl-2022-baby-malinga-is-truly-here-csk-fans-welcome-debutant-matheesha-pathirana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2022-baby-malinga-is-truly-here-csk-fans-welcome-debutant-matheesha-pathirana\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2022: \u201cBaby Malinga is truly here,\u201d CSK fans welcome debutant Matheesha Pathirana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Chennai+super+kings\">Chennai Super Kings<\/a>\u2018 pacer named Matheesha Pathirana had his debut for the franchise on Sunday when the team was playing against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Gujarat+Titans\">Gujarat Titans<\/a> at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. CSK is already out of the playoffs race of IPL 2022 and thus the franchise decided to give some chances to the young talents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Matheesha+Pathirana\">Matheesha Pathirana<\/a> who joined CSK after Adam Milne ruled out of IPL due to injury has the bowling action similar to legendary Sri Lankan pacer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Lasith+Malinga\">Lasith Malinga<\/a>. They both has the same arm-position when they bowl a delivery. The fans have now started calling him (Matheesha Pathirana) \u201cBaby Malinga\u201d after they saw him bowling in the game against Gujarat Titans.<\/p>\n<p>In his debut game in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=IPL\">IPL<\/a> he took two crucial wickets and also gave just 24 runs in his spell of 3 overs. However, this two wickets from him didn\u2019t came in a winning way but still it was a decent start for the Sri Lankan pacer in one of the biggest cricketing league (IPL).<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/RuturajStan\/status\/1525821156502081537?t=RO3j1We6iae1ZdEL3jPkyA&s=19<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Baby Malinga should have played in CSK from the moment he arrived in India\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANSHUMAN\ud83d\udea9 (@AvengerReturns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AvengerReturns\/status\/1525827033955115008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matheesha Pathirana, the 'Baby Malinga' of CSK dismissed Shubman Gill on his first delivery in IPL. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MatheeshaPathirana?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MatheeshaPathirana<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CSKvsGT?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CSKvsGT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wVB1UTsWr4\">pic.twitter.com\/wVB1UTsWr4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBTF Speed News (@cbtfspeednews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbtfspeednews\/status\/1525830490942763009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vaibhav04563161\/status\/1525852365529939973?t=qx8K83jME5e6jfjVglI4rA&s=19<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jr. Malinga ,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the ipl Matheesha Pathirana,<\/p>\n<p>First ball wicket in debut match ..<br \/>What a start <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CSKvsGT?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CSKvsGT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LeID9VDKcd\">pic.twitter.com\/LeID9VDKcd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\ude71\ud835\ude8e\ud835\ude92\ud835\ude97\ud835\ude90 \ud835\ude70\ud835\ude94\ud835\ude9c\ud835\ude91\ud835\ude8a\ud835\udea2 (@Akshay_P23) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Akshay_P23\/status\/1525818533224976388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ranjeetsaini7\/status\/1525821367144554496?t=8GMXOVGnTpWAuERywW0qMw&s=19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan pacer Matheesha Pathirana had his debut for CSK in their game against Gujarat Titans on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":40554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[320,299,3284],"class_list":["post-19912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-chennai-super-kings","tag-lasith-malinga","tag-matheesha-pathirana"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}