In Friday\u2019s clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Chepauk, Pathirana bowled five wides and missed the yorker multiple times which resulted in a juicy full-toss for the opposition batters.<\/p>\n
The performances in the current season were a far cry from the youngster\u2019s 13-wicket haul last season which came in just six matches. His slinging action and ability to land the yorker got CSK to retain him for a massive amount of INR 13 crore.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s failure with the ball resulted in CSK succumbing to yet another defeat, this time by five wickets on a surface that aided bowlers.<\/p>\n
When questioned about Pathirana\u2019s decline this season, head coach Stephen Fleming put it down to the change in his bowling action by the Sri Lanka Cricket.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cPathirana in South Africa was way off, and yes there was an issue with his action and that\u2019s probably a question for Sri Lankan cricket but we\u2019ve certainly tried to get him back to form and get him back to what we think is his best action,\u201d Fleming said in the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Playing for Jo\u2019burg Super Kings in the SA20 2024-25, Pathirana bowled 17 overs in six matches and finished with just three wickets while having an economy of of 10.47.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe\u2019s not far away, he\u2019s made massive improvement in the 2 months since South Africa, and we hope he keeps making that improvement. Part of his evolution is he is going to be asked to change things and at some point he will have to settle on an action that gives him the best results. He bowled two good overs today but with that action everything has to be in the right sync to get the results,\u201d Fleming further added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
CSK will try to get out of the bottom place when they next face Punjab Kings at the Chepauk on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CSK stayed at the bottom of the table and suffered their seventh loss of the season Chennai Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[6675,1406,29427,4127,29428,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-55615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-chennai-super-kings","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-csk-vs-srh","11":"tag-ipl-2025","12":"tag-matheesha-pathirana","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114411755675486939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}