It has been officially announced that Sri Lanka and CSK pacer Matheesha Pathirana has been included for IPL 2024.<\/p>\n
As the tournament begins on today (Friday) at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, the pacer has been declared fit to play despite recovering from a hamstring injury he sustained while playing in the second T20I match against Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
After several days of injury, his manager confirmed his fitness saying, \u201cThe answer to \u2018Where\u2019s Pathirana\u2019. He is fit and ready to throw Thunder balls. Be ready. Finally a together with the Legend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pathirana has not yet received a No Objection Certificate from the board, claiming he will miss the first 2-3 games for CSK.<\/p>\n
Pathirana, who took 19 wickets in 12 matches to become CSK\u2019s leading wicket-taker last season, will be unavailable for the inaugural match on March 22nd against RCB. Nevertheless, the player\u2019s injury will have a silver lining to provide work for Mustafizur Rahman, who will offer an additional quick work for the team.<\/p>\n
Cricket fans excited for the\u00a0CSK and RCB<\/a>\u00a0clash are only few hours away from\u00a0IPL 2024<\/a>\u2019s opening match. Till this match, keep track of where and when to see the match live.<\/p>\n The CSK and RCB clash have played against each other on 31 occasions, has historical importance. CSK has won 20 games, RCB managed 10 victories and one game end with a tie. CSK will be experience a new leadership of Ruturaj Gaikwa after the former captain MS Dhoni says goodbye to his captaincy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has been officially announced that Sri Lanka and CSK pacer Matheesha Pathirana has been included for IPL 2024. As\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":41953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3720,3284],"class_list":["post-21484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ipl-2024","tag-matheesha-pathirana"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}