Sunday 21 August 2022

Rajan Madugalle - The Stylish Lad of Sri Lankan Cricket

In the 2nd match of Rothmans Asia Cup on April 8, 1984, between India vs Sri Lanka. India won the toss and was elected to field first. The right-handed Rajan Madugalle was the only batsman, who resist the Indian seam bowling. He scored 38 runs off 76 balls with the help of 5 fours. The entire Sri Lanka team bowled out only for 96 runs in 41 overs.

Chetan Sharma picked 3 for 22, Manoj Prabhakar 2 for 16, Madan Lal 3 for 11, and Ravi Shastri 1 for 13.

Roger Binny and Kirti Azad didn’t have any wickets.

India reach the target in just 21.4 overs, as Surinder  Khanna scored 51 runs not out, and Ghulam Prakar 32 not out. Surinder Khanna won the match of the match award and was also a player of the series with 107 runs in the tournament. Ravi Shastri was the highest wicket-taker in the tournament picking 4 wickets in two matches.

Manoj Prabhakar made his ODI debut.

India won the match by 10 wickets.

Let's watch the Madugalle innings, who is currently a match referee from long long times.

The ODI # was 260, and the match was supervised by Dickie Bird and Shakoor Rana. 


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