Kusal Mendis, Sri Lanka vs Australia, 1st Test: The first match of the two -match Test series between Australia and Sri Lanka was played in Galle between January 29 and February 1. Where the Australian team managed to win by the innings and a big margin of 242 runs thanks to the best performance of their players. During the match, controversy has arisen over the way Sri Lankan wicketkeeper player Kusal Mendis was out in the second innings.
Actually, a video of his dismissal on social media is becoming very fast viral. In which it can be seen that the ball of the opposition team wicketkeeper Alex Carrie stumping him. He could not catch the ball properly. When he scattered the stumps, the ball was near his cine. But due to not getting any strong evidence, the result was in the Australian camp.
Kusal Mendis could not show anything special in both innings
Talk about, the team had high expectations from Kusal Mendis’s performance in the first Test match. But he could not live up to these expectations. In the first innings for the team, he faced a total of 40 balls while batting on the seventh order. Meanwhile, 21 runs were dismissed by a strike rate of 52.50.
Mendis could not convert a good start into a big innings
At the same time, he could not change the good start in the second innings into a big innings. Batting on the seventh order, he faced a total of 47 balls. Meanwhile, he returned to the pavilion after scoring 34 runs at a strike rate of 72.34.
Kusal Mendis was caught by Matthew Kuhonman in the first innings, caught by Todd Murphy, while in the second innings he was stumping at the hands of Alex Carrie on the ball of Nathan Lyon.
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