After his stunning bowling performance in the Asia Cup 2023 final against Sri Lanka, Mohammed Siraj said it “feels like a dream” to him. It certainly did for the fans as well.
Because how rarely you see a team getting bowled out for less than 100 in modern white-ball cricket; a team getting bowled out in 15.2 overs; a team’s innings getting dismantled in less than 90 minutes only.
That was a performance for ages from Mohammed Siraj, who bowled 7 overs on a trot – a feat very rare these days in ODIs for a fast bowler – and claimed 6 wickets to all but put the match and the Asia Cup 2023 trophy in India’s pocket.
Jasprit Bumrah took the first wicket on the third ball of the match, while Hardik Pandya took the last three Sri Lankan wickets. In the middle of these two events, it was mayhem wrecked on the Lankans, in front of their jam-packed home crowd at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, from Mohammed Siraj.
Mohammed Siraj ended with figures of 7-1-21-6 and produced an outstanding display of swing and seam movement bowling.
This led to a flurry of memes and trolling on the Sri Lankan team. It also included fans going for an incessant attack on Sri Lankan journalist Daniel Alexander.
Daniel Alexander is someone who never misses a chance to troll the Indian cricket team. In fact, amid this chaos of his own side, which was bowled out for 50, Daniel Alexander found a way to bring up India’s 36 all-out vs Australia, pointing it out that 36 all out still remains the lowest international team total by an Asian team.
Indian fans slammed and trolled Daniel Alexander hilariously with memes:
Speaking in the mid-match break Siraj said “Feels like a dream. Last time I did the same against Sri Lanka at Trivandrum. Got four wickets early, couldn’t get the five-for. Realised you get what’s in your destiny. Did not try too much today. I have always looked for swing in white-ball cricket. Did not find much in the previous games. But today it was swinging, and I got more wickets with the outswinger. Wanted to make the batters drive.”
