{"id":151466,"date":"2021-10-28T20:02:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=151466"},"modified":"2021-10-29T01:59:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:59:37","slug":"sri-lankans-contender-for-worst-ball-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=151466","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan's contender for worst ball of all-time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sri Lankan fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera has put in a contender for one of the worst deliveries of all-time in the T20 World Cup<\/a> loss against Australia. <\/p>\n

It was a tough outing for Sri Lanka's quicks, who had impressed in the lead-up to the match before being smashed to all parts by Australia's opening pair. <\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong>David Warner finds form in dominant Australian win over Sri Lanka<\/a><\/p>\n

Just a few deliveries after having David Warner dropped by wicket-keeper Kusal Perera<\/a>, Chameera failed to hit the pitch with an attempted cutter, as the ball slipped out of his hands.<\/p>\n

"Oh my goodness!" exclaimed commentator Simon Doull after the ball. "That'll be a no-ball and a free hit. It's completely slipped out the side."<\/p>\n

"They've had enough problems, they really didn't need this," added co-commentator Russel Arnold.<\/p>\n

\"Dushmantha<\/p>\n

Australian captain Aaron Finch, who was facing the delivery, could be heard telling the umpire: "It has to be a noey", before the ball was called a no-ball due to missing the pitch entirely.<\/p>\n

After coming into the match on the back of some strong bowling form, both Chameera and fellow Sri Lankan quick Lahiru Kumara received some punishment from Finch and Warner. <\/p>\n

Chameera finished with figures of 0-33 off his three overs, while Kumara was blasted for 48 runs in his three overs, with Finch admitting the pair were targeted after the match.<\/p>\n

"We knew that spin was going to have such a big impact outside the powerplay," Finch said.<\/p>\n

"So we knew the quicks we had to take a little bit of a chance on and we got away with it, which was nice, Davey played a beautiful knock."<\/p>\n

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Sri Lankan fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera has put in a contender for one of the worst deliveries of all-time in the T20 World Cup loss […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151468,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151466\/revisions\/151468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}