ENG vs SL | Twitter in awe as Matthew Potts befuddles Angelo Mathews with absolute jaffa

Eyeing to surpass a first innings trail of 427 runs, Sri Lankan batters got off to a shaky start as their openers, Nishan Madushka and Dimuth Karunaratne fell cheaply to the hard new ball at the stroke of Lunch. Pathum Nissanka followed suit immediately after the break and Dinesh Chandimal joined Angelo Matthews in the middle. While the experienced campaigners tried to tick the scoreboard with some glorious strokes, the partnership fell short of the fifty-run mark, courtesy of a jaffa from Potts. 

The pacer was summoned for his second spell after the 15th over when he stuck to a strict line against the Lankan pair. The fruits of hard work finally reaped in the 21st over with Potts producing a good length delivery, pitched at the middle stump line on the over’s first ball. Mathews was squared up inside the line to stonewall it, only had he known the ball would swing away late to beat the outside edge of the bat and clatter onto the top of the off stump. 

Soon after, the right-arm pacer was pumped with the beautiful delivery while the Sri Lankan veteran was left disheartened. Eventually, the pacer induced a nick off captain Dhananjaya de Silva two balls later to end up with a double wicket maiden, extending his golden run at Lords after a seven-fer against New Zealand previously. 

The Twitterverse loved every bit of sweat Potts shed to produce such a dream delivery and couldn’t shy away from lauding the pacer.

Game changing over!

Stand up and applaud

Deep trouble

WOW

The best

Definetly

WOO WOO

Crazy

Impressive

magic