T20 World Cup: First hat-trick against Sri Lanka..!?

Sowmiya Sriram
T20 World Cup: First hat-trick against Sri Lanka..!?

Chennai player karthik Meiyappan, who plays for the uae team against sri lanka in the league match of the t20 world cup cricket series, took hat-trick wickets. sri lanka and uae teams clashed today in the Round 1 Group A section. In this, the uae team won the toss and chose to bowl first. In this, the Sri Lankan players played with the motivation to score a big score. Opener Nisanga was in action and scored 74 runs off 60 balls. Similarly, Dananjaya Silva was run out after scoring 33 runs.
The Sri Lankan team took 3 wickets for 117 runs and was in a strong position. Meiyappan, who is playing for the uae team in the 15th over of the game, gave a tough challenge to the Sri Lankan team. First, Meiyappan took the wicket of IPL player Rajapaksa in the 4th ball of 15 overs. Following this, Meiyappan ducked Asalanga in the next ball and bowled the Sri Lankan captain Shanaka in the last ball.
With this, Meiyappan achieved the first hat trick of the 2022 t20 world cup cricket series. This is the 5th hat trick in t20 World Cup. Bradley performed against bangladesh during the first World Cup. Since then Irishman Camper has scored a hat-trick against the Netherlands, Hazaranga has scored against south africa and Rabada has scored a hat-trick against England.
Meiyappan is the first tamil Nadu player to achieve this feat in t20 World Cup. Born and brought up in Chennai, Meiyappan moved to dubai with his family in 2012 and studied cricket there. Meiyappan, who was the captain of the Under-19 uae team in 2019, was selected as a debutant in international cricket that year.
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