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.”
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