In the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 on Tuesday, spinner Karthik Meiyappan, who become born in Chennai and spent his early teenagers growing his cricket skills in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, supplied a second to remember. In the 6th sport of the competition, Meiyappan’s bowling towards Sri Lanka ended in a hat-trick as he magically tore thru the center order.
With this accomplishment, Meiyappan have become simply the 5th bowler in T20 World Cup records to stable a hat-trick. Only Bret Lee from Australia, Kagiso Rabada from South Africa, Curtis Campher from Ireland, and Wanindu Hasaranga from Sri Lanka have executed this feat earlier than him. Meiyappan completed off his hat trick through brushing off Dasun Shanaka, Charith Asalanka, and Bhanuka Rajapaksa, the captain of Sri Lanka. UAE had been given out for seventy three runs while Sri Lanka’s intention of 153 seemed to be a chunk an excessive amount of for them to pursue, negating Meiyappan’s hat-trick. UAE suffered their 2d defeat of the competition, which ended their campaign. Their imminent in shape towards Namibia will now be a moot factor. Meiyappan, though, become content material together along with his success.
“It nonetheless hasn’t sunk in, the reality I were given a hat-trick in a T20 World Cup and the primary (UAE) bowler to do so. It truely is a proud second, great. But it’d had been plenty sweeter, plenty higher if we had gained the sport tonight. Obviously making the crew to be withinside the World Cup become an success in itself, however the most important intention become to play the Super 12s. As of now I assume, going ahead for us, it’d be the 2023 World Cup in India. That’s what we will be prepping up for,” he instructed the media after the sport. Meiyappan become additionally sincere approximately how he felt after the sport and mentioned every wicket he took to perform the hat-trick.
“First up towards Rajapaksa, I assume the period facet become a protracted boundary for him. I idea he could attempt to take me down over there due to the fact I assume he become five-from-five, some thing like that. I began out to push it and he attempted however he sliced it, directly to Kashif at the boundary. That become the primary one. And then Asalanka walked in. That become a no brainer for me. I become going to bowl round and directly up. Vriitya took an great catch.,” he instructed the media approximately the primary wickets. Meiyappan bowled 3 consecutive googlies to take 3 key wickets. At that factor in the sport, his hat-trick positioned his crew in a cushty position. The maximum magnificent of the 3 wickets become Dasun Shanaka’s removal, because the batter become left speechless on the sector while the ball rattled thru the stumps.
“When Dasun walked in, I become going thru my feelings of being on a hat-trick, however all I desired to do become bowl on the stumps. And something occurs after that, it isn’t always in my hands. But once more I simply bowled round him and I assume he picked it (wrong), attempted to head over cover. But yeah. I become clean with my plans earlier than the hat-trick ball. And nobody got here in. But we constantly have a talk while we bowl, me and the wicket-keeper. We are from the identical city, that’s why we talked in our language, Tamil. We had a communique earlier than that and I simply brought what I desired to,” he added.