BHANUKA WHO WAS DROPPED FROM SRI LANKA TEAM OVER FITNESS ISSUES SLAMS 22 ball 43 in IPL Debut
Bhanuka Rajapaksa who was dropped from Sri Lanka team over fitness issues smashed 43 runs from 22 balls in his IPL debut.
Bhanuka Rajapaksa: (thinking at the start of batting) What we thought was that we would have a free hand. Wanindu is my team-mate and I knew how to handle him. Shikhar asked me to be aggressive even if I was new. Its about knowing Wanindu and playing him. Know him for 4-5 years, just brought my local knowledge in. Such a big confidence booster for us. We had a theory. We wanted a movie called 14 peaks (about mountaineer Nirmal Purja who climbed the highest 14 mountains in the world inside a year) to get motivated. We gave 130 runs in the last 8-9 overs, that’s somewhere we can improve.”