UAE’s Karthik Meiyappan takes first hat-trick of 2022 T20 World Cup towards Sri Lanka

UAE leggie Karthik Meiyappan took the primary hat-trick of 2022 T20 World Cup towards Sri Lanka in Geelong on Tuesday.

Meiyappan started by getting Bhanuka Rajapaksa caught off the fourth ball of the fifteenth over. He eliminated Charith Asalanka off the following ball, caught behind. Meiyappan accomplished his hat-trick by clear bowling Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka.

Meiyappan completed with figures of three for 19 from 4 overs.

“It’s a fantastic feeling and it actually hasn’t sunk in but. I used to be making an attempt to take the ball away from the leftie, I used to be fortunate that he [Bhanuka Rajapaksa] sliced it to deep cowl. [Charith] Asalanka, it was straightforward for me to bowl a improper’un, and he nicked it, however [Dasun] Shanaka, that was a particular ball, to get it by means of bat and pad. That was the largest one. There wasn’t a lot buy off the wicket, however it was necessary to maintain it wicket to wicket, in the event that they miss I hit,” Meiyappan stated throughout the innings break.

Meiyappan turns into the fifth bowler after Brett Lee (2007), Curtis Campher (2021), Wanindu Hasaranga (2021) and Kagiso Rabada (2021) to document hat-tricks on the T20 World Cup.

Meiyappan is the primary participant from an affiliate workforce to take a hat-trick towards a Take a look at workforce in males’s World Cups (T20Is or ODIs).

[Last stat courtesy Rajneesh Gupta]