Meiyappan grabs maiden hat-trick of T20 WC 2022
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Karthik Meiyappan stunned Sri Lanka by registering a hat-trick in the ongoing First Round of the T20 World Cup at Geelong Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.
Sri Lanka were struggling on 117-5 after 15 overs, Meiyappan returned Bhanuka Rajapaksa (5), then Charith Asalanka fell prey and skipper Dasun Shanaka for naught.
Rajapaksa was caught in the deep, Asalanka caught behind and Shanaka clean-bowled.
"It's a great feeling and it really hasn't sunk in yet," said the 22-year-old Meiyappan, who ended with figures of 3-19 off his four overs as Sri Lanka made 152-8.
"I was trying to take the ball away from the leftie (Rajapaksa), I was lucky that he sliced it to deep cover. Asalanka, it was easy for me to bowl a wrong'un, and he nicked it.
"But Shanaka, that was a special ball, to get it through bat and pad. That was the biggest one."
Meiyappan became just the fifth bowler to snare a hat-trick at a T20 World Cup after Australia's Brett Lee (2007), Irishman Curtis Campher, Sri Lanka's Wanindu Hasaranga and South Africa's Kagiso Rabada, who all achieved the feat in 2021.
