Twitter reacts to Matheesha ‘Malinga’ Pathirana clocking 175 kph on speed gun
Can you imagine being 17 years of age and clocking 175 kph on the speed gun? Well, Sri Lanka’s Matheesha Pathirana, whose action has a striking resemblance to that of Lasith Malinga, managed to achieve the feat against the Indian U19 team at the Mangaung Oval in Bloemfontein on Sunday.
Prior to the tournament, there was certainly hype surrounding Matheesha Pathirana, the Lankan youngster whose bowling action was all but the carbon copy of Lasith Malinga. In fact, he’s the second such Malinga prototype that we the fans have come across in recent times, with Tamil Nadu’s G Periyaswamy being the first. Anyway, coming back to Pathirana, the expectations on the youngster was high, ahead of the tournament, but no one quite expected him to do what he did on Sunday.
On the final ball of the fourth over, bowling to India’s star batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal, the slingy right-armer, who was in the middle of an extremely quick spell, delivered a wayward, erratic bouncer towards the left of Jaiswal, which the batsman let go. The ball was, in fact, so wide that the left-hander didn’t even need to attempt playing a shot. The umpire called the ball wide and rightly so, but that was not the catch of the incident.
The speed guns showed that the bowler had clocked an astonishing 175 kph (108 mph), leaving every single viewer bewildered. In case you’re wondering, the fastest ball ever recorded was bowled by Pakistan’s Shoaib Akhtar, back in 2002, when the tearaway quick recorded a speed of 161.3km/h (100.2mph) on the clock. This was almost fourteen kph quicker than Shoaib’s rocket.
Of course, it might very well have been a glitch, with the speed gun just misfiring, especially with Pathirana not coming anywhere close to the 100mph mark apart from that. But it did get people talking and raised a few eyebrows. And one thing’s for sure, there will be people keeping an eye on this youngster everytime he comes to bowl.
Here are the tweets: This was the delivery!
Sri-Lankan U19 Pacer Pathirana clocked a stunning 175 kph on the speed gun in match Against India on a Wide Ball.
— Mahirat 🏏 (@GOATKingKohli)
On the right corner of the screen, the speed of the delivery showed at 108 mph.
It did raise some eyebrows!
175kph: MATHEESHA PATHIRANA, 19 Jan 2020
— citizenashish (@citizenashish)
Fastest recorded delivery in cricket history by Sri Lankan bowler in the ongoing U-19 Cricket World Cup. However , it might be a technical error in speed - gun but there's no official denial from the ICC so far.
As of now, it is a world record!
wow 175kph ...... Amazing
— Bhola Mandal (@WildStrick)
If ICC noticed it then they must did a post about it .... Cause it's a world record 🙌
Debatable!
175 KPH? Doesn't seem like 175-like delivery
— Azeem Siddiqui (@aze3msiddiqui)
Doing it at the age of 17! :O
17-year-old Young Srilankan Matheesha Pathirana sets world record with 175kph delivery vs India - India Today
— Shehan Madawa 🇱🇰 (@shehanmlive)
I had to pinch myself!
175 kph speed aa😮😮
— KING IN THE NORTH (@DrSaiKumarReddy)
The speed gun error maybe?
175 kph speed aa😮😮
— KING IN THE NORTH (@DrSaiKumarReddy)
The debate becomes heated!
In case you missed it... Sri Lanka Under-19's Matheesha Pathirana clocked a world record 175kph delivery vs India Under-19!
— Subhayan Chakraborty (@CricSubhayan)
Bhai 175 ...ffs...technical glitch, surely?
— Yash Mittal 🇮🇳 (@im_yash2307)
Speed gun detected 175. So unless ICC clarifies it with some sort of a technical glitch then we have a new world record.
— Subhayan Chakraborty (@CricSubhayan)
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