Wanindu Hasaranga is second within the ICC rankings for T20I bowlers. However, he has not been capable of replicate that kind within the ODI format, wherein he’s ranked 26. More than the rankings, the leg-spinners’ lack of wicket-taking effectiveness within the 50-over sport has been uncovered within the ongoing ODI sequence towards India.
He has gone wicketless within the first two video games, going for 67 and 28 runs respectively. Despite being economical in Kolkata within the second match, he was discovered wanting when Sri Lanka desperately wanted wickets making an attempt to defend a goal of 216. The Sri Lankan seamers had carried out nicely to ship 4 top-order Indian batters to the pavilion however Hasaranga did not capitalise on that begin and let Okay L Rahul and Hardik Pandya play him out with out a lot bother.
Hasaranga has taken 89 wickets at a median of 15 from 55 T20I matches. He was the main wicket-taker in final 12 months’s T20 World Cup with 15 wickets. With 26 wickets, he was second among the many highest wicket-takers within the Indian Premier League (IPL). These numbers are in stark distinction to his ODI stats; 39 wickets from 36 video games at a median of 37.
He made his debut within the format with a stellar efficiency bagging a hat-trick towards Zimbabwe in 2017 and thus changing into solely the third debutant in ODI historical past to realize the feat. However, he has did not dwell as much as that promise within the format since then.
In T20 cricket, when the batters are below stress to attain at a fast fee, he induces errors extra regularly to dismiss them. The googly is his go-to weapon with which he has taken a big chunk of his wickets, both bowled or LBW. Bowling principally alongside Maheesh Theekshana, a miserly buyer, additionally has been a consider Hasaranga’s success within the T20-over sport.
Hasaranga has a creditable economic system fee of simply 5.05 in ODIs however when batters shouldn’t have to take undue danger looking for runs, he has not been capable of prise them out, one thing Kuldeep Yadav has been doing for India, giving them essential breakthroughs within the center overs.
In the pre-match press convention, Sri Lanka coach Chris Silverwood, when requested about Sri Lankan spinners’ ineffectiveness in comparison with their Indian counterparts, stated, “Spin has been our strength in T20Is for a while. It will continue to be our strength, In 50-over cricket, with more time there, they have to learn to vary their lengths. It requires a different type of skill set. We have some very good spinners in this format too. If anything that they are missing, it is the experience. When they come back for the World Cup, they will know what lines and lengths they will have to bowl and they will be richer for the experience.”
Come Sunday, Hasaranga has yet one more probability to place his learnings into observe and assist Sri Lanka register a comfort win.
