nailed a pull shot while
fall over backwards, slog-swept
medium pace for six
Seems forever since I had a haiku based on cricket but the article, Rishabh Pant blast rocks Australia on 15-wicket day to keep India’s hopes alive, was too good to pass up.
This passage caught my eye:
Missing a reverse ramp third ball, he carried on with a series of airborne boundaries through midwicket, cover and down the ground. He nailed a pull shot while falling over backwards, slog-swept Webster’s medium pace for six, then did the same twice in a row off the far more express Starc, in the process passing 50 from 29 balls. The only faster half-century for India was – hard to believe, of course – by Pant.
Writing about cricket in Australian.
Is that a double blind?
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