IPL playerSri Lanka2022 to 2026
Matheesha Pathirana
On scorecards: M Pathirana · Right-hand bat
Matheesha Pathirana, a bowler, has played five IPL seasons for two franchises. One title came along the way.
The arrival
Matheesha Pathirana's first IPL season was 2022, with Chennai Super Kings, a signing made outside the auction.
That first season brought 2 matches and 2 wickets.
The peak
The best season was 2023, for Chennai Super Kings: 19 wickets at 7.98 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 8.79, with best figures of 3 for 15. Chennai Super Kings won the title that year.
Franchise by franchise
2022 to 2025, Chennai Super Kings. 32 matches and 47 wickets; champions in 2023.
2026, Kolkata Knight Riders. Bought at the 2026 auction for ₹18 cr. 1 match.
2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Chennai Super Kings, 2022 to 2025.
How the wickets came
With the ball, 47 wickets in 712 deliveries, at 8.64 runs an over against a league rate of 9.13 for the same seasons: 0.49 an over cheaper than the typical bowler of the time. There was one four-wicket haul, and the best figures were 4 for 28.
33.8% of the balls Matheesha Pathirana bowled were dots, a lower share than 60% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 15.1 balls.
The fielding record: 9 catches.
At the auction
Matheesha Pathirana has gone under the hammer twice, bought once and left unsold once. The price was ₹18 cr, paid by Kolkata Knight Riders in 2026, more than 9 times the base price. Unsold in 2022, Matheesha Pathirana was bought in 2026 by Kolkata Knight Riders.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Matheesha Pathirana has made 33 IPL appearances, the latest for Kolkata Knight Riders in 2026, and has won 2 player-of-the-match awards.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Chennai Super Kings | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 0/0 | 2 | 7.61 | 2/24 | 1 | ||
| 2023 | Chennai Super Kings | 12 | 0 | – | – | – | 0/0 | 19 | 7.98 | 3/15 | 4 | 1 | Champions |
| 2024 | Chennai Super Kings | 6 | 0 | – | – | – | 0/0 | 13 | 7.68 | 4/28 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2025 | Chennai Super Kings | 12 | 0 | – | – | – | 0/0 | 13 | 10.10 | 3/36 | 3 | ||
| 2026 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 0/0 | 0 | 6.75 | - | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Chennai Super Kings: 2022 to 2025
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls bowled | 33.8% |
| Balls per wicket | 15.1 |
| Catches | 9 |
| Run-outs | 0 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet