Jasprit Bumrah Gives ''5-Star Rating'' To Lasith Malinga's Show Against New Zealand

What an incredible spell it was for Lasith Malinga on the other night against New Zealand. Defending a low tally on the board, Lasith Malinga showed how it should be done to all the youngsters out there. Meanwhile, one of his students, Jasprit Bumrah rates Malinga’s spell as top-class.

Chasing 126 runs to win, New Zealand openers Colin Munro and Tim Seifert scored 15 in the opening two overs before captain Malinga broke the New Zealand batting in one over. Since then, New Zealand never got back on the track with Sri Lanka folding them for 88 runs.

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Firstly, he castled Munro with beauty. It was also a 100th T20I wicket for him. Then, it was a  duck for Rutherford on return. On the pads this time on a fullish length. The new batsman, Rutherford goes for a flick but he is very late on the stroke. Though umpire didn’t give it on the field, the review taken by Malinga helped Sri Lanka to get back-to-back wickets.

Following that, there comes a cracking yorker to Colin de Grandhomme, whose time went off in searching for the delivery. It was a ripper from Malinga again. Another inswinging yorker. Thus he bagged his 2nd hat-trick in his career. However, it didn’t stop him there, he once again went for his favourite yorker and found Ross Taylor plumb in front of the wicket.

Lasith Malinga is simply amazing – Jasprit Bumrah

As soon as he delivered the goods, praises followed him on social media from across the world. The flamboyant cricketer received the praises from the greats of the game. One of those special tweets was from the current yorker king Jasprit Bumrah, who rated Malinga with 5 stars.

In a tweet, Bumrah wrote: “History maker #Malinga. Simply amazing,” and gave the bowler a five-star for his stunning effort.

History maker #Malinga. Simply amazing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

— Jasprit Bumrah (@Jaspritbumrah93) September 6, 2019

Malinga, who surpassed Pakistan spinner Shahid Afridi’s tally of 97 scalps to become the leading wicket-taker in T20Is on Sunday, went past the 100-wicket mark on Friday in Pallekele. Malinga’s inspired spell gave Sri Lanka a consolation win in the T20I series. New Zealand had won the first 2 T20Is to seal the 3-match series as early as Sunday.

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