T20 World Cup 2022: Five Players who made strong impact in Round 1
ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022: Five Players who made strong impact in Round 1 of World Cup.
Cricket is a team sport. But more often than not, we see individual brilliance winning the match for the team. Individual performances not only win matches for teams but they also stick with fans and cricketing pundits. If such dominant performances come in a World Cup, then it goes beyond the cricketing world and is etched in the memories of the entire world.
One was witness to several glimpses of players coming, owning the stage, even before ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 Super 12 stage started. Round 1 of the mega event dished out five such standout players to watch out for in the Super 12 stage, where they would go head on against the best of the best teams and players.
Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka)
Number 3 T20I & number 5 T20I all-rounder and spin wizard Wanindu Hasaranga was at his surreal best in Round 1. A clear outlier was that the associated nations failed to read the bowler from the hand, which made life even more difficult for the batters. The T20I specialist used his bag of spin bowling tricks one after the other to become the highest wicket taker in Round 1 with seven wickets.
After an average performance in the first game against Namibia, Hasaranga was his usual self against the UAE and Netherlands, where he picked up three wickets each. Hasaranga’s mystery outfoxed UAE batters when Sri Lanka just had 160+ runs on the board as he derailed the opponent’s ship with three wickets, giving just eight runs in his spell of four overs. Out of the total 23 wickets picked up by