#2 Nuwan Zoysa
Nuwan Zoysa was a Sri Lankan bowler who featured for the national side in 30 Test matches. He was never considered a huge threat by batsmen and that is exactly how he kept on chipping away at wickets.
It was Sri Lanka’s tour of Zimbabwe in 1999 where Zoysa was able to grab a hat-trick. It was the second Test of the tour and Zimbabwe were sent in to bat first. The lanky pacer got his reward in a pack of three right away.
With his very first ball, he trapped Trevor Gripper right in front of the stumps and followed it up with an absolute peach of a delivery to Murray who could only knick it to Romesh Kaluwitharana behind the stumps. Zoysa’s third scalp was Neil Johnson who was adjudged leg-before-wicket.
But sadly, he could never live up to the expectations and only managed to take 64 Test wickets. In ODIs he had picked 108 wickets from 95 matches.
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