6 Wides, 1 No-Ball, 2 Fours And A Wicket: Naveen-Ul-Haq Bowls Marathon 13-Ball Over vs Zimbabwe

Afghanistan pacer Naveen-ul-Haq is within the information once more, as he bowled a marathon rollercoaster over throughout his crew’s first T20I towards Zimbabwe. In an over that appeared like it could by no means recover from, Naveen bowled as many as 13 balls to lastly full his over. Naveen bowled a whopping six wides, together with a no ball, culminating within the 13-ball over. However, whereas he was smashed for 2 fours, he additionally got here again sturdy to select up a wicket in the identical over as effectively.

Bowling the fifteenth over to Brian Bennett, Naveen began off with a large, earlier than a single gave the strike to Sikandar Raza. Raza took benefit of a weak ball and slashed it for a boundary, and it was additionally known as a no-ball.

Are you able to depend what number of balls did he bowl in that over? As a result of we misplaced depend!

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Attempting to nail the free-hit supply, Naveen made error after error. He bowled 4 consecutive wides, each single time failing to nail a large yorker. As soon as he lastly bowled a authorized ball, Raza slammed him for one more boundary.

However right here is the place the tide swung. The ninth ball of Naveen’s over – the third official ball – resulted in a wicket, as Raza was caught at additional cowl by a diving Rahmanullah Gurbaz.

The remainder of the over included three singles, though one other broad was additionally bowled.

This is how the over performed out:

14.1: wd

14.1: 1 – Bennett

14.2: NB, 4 – Raza

14.2: wd

14.2: wd

14.2: wd

14.2: wd

14.2: 4 (free-hit) – Raza

14.3: OUT – Raza

14.4: 1 – Burl

14.5: 1 – Bennett

14.6: wd

14.6: 1 – Burl

Regardless of the 13-ball over, Naveen ended up as Afghanistan’s most profitable bowler, selecting up three wickets. Nevertheless, that was not sufficient to make sure victory, as Zimbabwe chased down 21 within the remaining two overs and gained off the final ball, attaining a goal of 145.