Dasun Shanaka has registered an embarrassing record, becoming the first player to take a hat-trick of ducks twice in his T20I career.
Dasun Shanaka Duck out Record in T20I: The 3 match T20 series between India and Sri Lanka is starting from 27th July. India has played 2 matches in which it has taken a 2-0 lead. While Sri Lanka is losing matches on one hand, on the other hand, it seems as if bad luck is chasing the team’s experienced all-rounder Dasun Shanaka.
In fact, Dasun Shanaka has been a victim of duck out in both the matches played. In the first match, he was run out without playing a ball, while in the second T20 match, he was out after playing 1 ball.
Dasun Shanaka took a hat-trick of duck outs
In fact, before this, Dasun Shanaka returned to the pavilion on zero in his last T20 match against the Netherlands. With this, he has made a hat-trick of ducks in T20 Internationals this year. Let us tell you that this is not the first time that Shanaka has been out on zero 3 times in a row in men’s T20 Internationals.
Earlier in 2017, Shanaka was out for zero in T20I against India-Pakistan and Australia. Dasun Shanaka has made an embarrassing record to his name. Shanaka has become the player to take a hat-trick of duck outs twice in his T20 International career.
See these figures-
Dasun Shanaka’s 2 duck out hat-tricks
(0, 0, 0) in 2017 — vs AUS, IND, PAK
(0, 0, 0) in 2024 — vs NETH, IND, IND
Dasun Shanaka was once a big threat for India, but now he has once again become the duck man of this Sri Lankan team. On the other hand, fans on the internet are calling him a Panauti Player while some are calling him the King of Bad Luck.
India took a 2-0 lead by winning the second T20 match
India has taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. In the second T20 match, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and decided to bowl first. Sri Lanka scored 161 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. Due to rain interruption, India got a target of 78 runs in 8 overs to win. Team India won the match by scoring 81 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 6.3 overs.