The Asia Cup 2023 tournament has started. On Wednesday, the first match of this tournament was played between Nepal and Pakistan, in which the Pakistan team registered a spectacular victory by defeating Nepal by a huge margin of 238 runs. At the same time, today the second match of this tournament is being played between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh team. In which Bangladesh team is batting first after winning the toss. Bangladesh team, which came to bat first after winning the toss, had a very bad start. Both the team’s openers Mohammad Naeem scored 16 runs and Tanjeed Hasan returned to the pavilion without opening the account.
After Bangladesh team’s opening failure, the team’s most experienced player and captain Shakib Al Hasan came on the field to play, then Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka showed wisdom and handed the ball to his team’s most dangerous bowler Mathisha Pathirana. Mathisha Pathirana, who played for the CSK team in the IPL, lived up to the expectations of his captain and got Shakib caught out by wicketkeeper Kusal Mendis in his very first over. After Shakib’s dismissal, Bangladesh’s innings has completely faltered.
After the fall of Shakib’s wicket, there was silence in the Bangladesh camp, while a wave of happiness ran in the Sri Lankan team. Seeing the way this player, popularly known as Baby Malinga, bowled his first over, it seemed as if Lasith Malinga was playing on the field for the Sri Lankan team today. Pathirana’s bowling in exact Malinga style and bowling with the same aggression proved that whoever plays for MS Dhoni’s team turns out to be pure gold. Pathirana had performed very well for the CSK team in this season of IPL. Pathirana has shown a similar performance in his first match in this Asia Cup tournament.
Apart from Pathirana who took the wicket of Shakib, wicketkeeper Kusal Mendis also took a brilliant catch. The speed and distance with which Mendis took this catch of Shakib is really commendable. After this catch of Mendis on social media, people remembered MS Dhoni. Apart from being the most successful captain of the cup, Dhoni is also the most successful wicketkeeper player, hence after this catch of Mendis, the mention of Dhoni has also increased on social media.
