Former all-rounder of Indian cricket team Vijay Shankar has come into the headlines these days due to his poor and surprising performance in Lanka Premier League (LPL). After recently announcing his retirement from all formats of international and domestic cricket, Vijay Shankar had come to showcase his talent in the foreign league, but in a crucial match, his extremely slow and irresponsible batting forced his team to face defeat even when it was on the verge of victory. In the last over, when the team was expecting a charismatic batting, he could not manage to score a single run.
Drama in a thrilling encounter against Jaffna Kings
The 18th match of the Lanka Premier League saw a thrilling clash between Jaffna Kings and Kandy Royals. Batting first, Jaffna Kings displayed a superb performance and posted a mammoth score of 221 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the allotted overs. Chasing this huge target, Kandy Royals fought hard from the beginning till the end of the match, but their path to reach the target became difficult. Finally, the match reached a point where Kandy needed a miraculous 22 runs in the last over to register a win.
Lethal bowling by Dilshan Madushanka and a maiden over by Vijay Shankar
The team and supporters had high hopes for Vijay Shankar, who remained on the field for the Kandy Royals, even though the team had only one wicket remaining at that time. Fast bowler Dilshan Madushanka, who came on to bowl the final and decisive over of the innings for the Jaffna Kings, displayed a superb display of his bowling. Under pressure, Vijay Shankar appeared completely helpless and failed to score a single run in that crucial six-ball over against Dilshan. In contrast, Dilshan continued his brilliant bowling, dismissing Vijay Shankar on the last ball of the over. Thus, he bowled a maiden over and took a wicket, reducing Shankar’s innings to just 25 runs off 21 balls.
Jaffna Kings’ impressive win and Pawan Sandesh’s struggle
In this match, Kamil Mishara scored 49 runs and Chamindu Wickramasinghe scored 43 runs for Jaffna Kings, due to which the team was successful in making a strong score of 221 runs. In bowling, Wanindu Hasaranga gave the most economical and excellent performance for Kandy Royals, taking 2 important wickets. While chasing the target, Pawan Sandesh batted brilliantly for Kandy and contributed 48 runs, but the team could only score 200 runs in the stipulated overs and ultimately faced a crushing defeat by 21 runs.