Al Amin Hossain shined with the ball in the Sri Lankan Premier League (LPL). The Bangladeshi pacer took 3 wickets after returning to the XI of Kandy Warriors on Thursday. Al Amin’s team defeated Dambulla Giants by 6 wickets in the match.

Al Amin’s first match in this year’s LPL was against Dambulla Giants. He took 2 wickets for 36 runs in that match. In the next match against Galle Gladiators he went wicketless for 13 runs. He took one wicket for 31 against Jaffna Kings in the third match and 21 for 21 in the fourth match against Galle Gladiators.

Al Amin was left out of the XI as he took only 3 wickets in 4 matches. Candy gave him a chance in the seventh game on Thursday. In the eleventh over, as the fifth bowler, Al Amin hit a couple of strikes. His victim was 2 wickets for 2 runs in his first over. On the second ball of the over, Al Amin brought back Afghan batsman Najibullah Zadran. And Chamika picked Karunaratne off the fifth ball. Al Amin gave 7 runs in the second over. The third over is a bit scratchy, 11 runs. Then in the 19th over of the innings, Marchant returned de Lange with the first ball. But he gave 12 runs in that over. Al Amin’s bowling figure stands at 4-0-32-3.

Binura Fernando also took three wickets in the match. Dambulla Giants collected 130 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. Maximum 41 runs came from the bat of Ramesh Mendis. Al Amin’s Candy Warriors beat the target of 135 runs with 4 balls and 6 wickets in hand. Ravi Bopara scored 59* off 50 balls. Captain Angelo Mathews scored 29* off 22 balls. Ravi Bopara was the man of the match. Candy’s position is at the bottom of the points table with this victory. They collected only 4 points from 2 wins in 7 matches.