Watch: Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi’s insane 4-wicket 1st Over in T20 Blast: Pakistani pacer Shaheen Afridi on Friday, 30th June, sent shock waves all over the world with his insane bowling performance in the first over of the T20 Blast in England. Afridi scalped 4 wickets in just an over to stun all his fans and commentators at once in the game between Nottinghamshire and Birmingham Bears in Vitality T20 Blast.
In the video shared from the official Twitter handle of Vitality T20 Blast, Afridi can be seen demolishing the top order of Birmingham Bears with his immaculate first over, which saw him create a new world record.
In pursuit of 168 runs total posted by Nottinghamshire, Birmingham Bears saw destruction take place from close quarters as Shaheen Afridi wreaked havoc. In the first legal delivery of the innings, after giving away five wides, Afridi caught Bears’ skipper Alex David off-guard with his pin-point unplayable yorker. In the very next delivery, Pakistan’s pacer castled Chris Benjamin as he looked to play a scoop shot.
The hat-trick delivery was negotiated nicely by Dan Mousley, who took a single to bring up opening runs for his side. The fourth delivery had the same outcome – a single. However, Afridi didn’t stop his quest as he landed two more blows in the last two deliveries of the same over.
The lanky pacer then got rid of Dan Mousley, who was caught by Olly Stone at short covers. To finish his over in style, Afridi castled three sticks of Ed Bernard with a full-length off-stump delivery.
Shaheen Afridi’s insane 4 wickets in an over pushed Birmingham Bears into the backfoot right in the first over of the innings. However, the Bears showed the courage of a lion as they did all the rescue work and went on to restructure their chase of 169 runs.
Watch Video: Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi’s insane 4-wicket 1st Over in T20 Blast
Despite that fantastic first over by Shaheen Afridi, Nottinghamshire was defeated by Birmingham Bears by 2 wickets with five balls to spare. Rob Yates, one of the openers, played a key role in keeping the Bears’ hopes alive for a very long time. Yates scored a match-winning innings of 65 runs in 46 deliveries with the help of three fours and five sixes.
Other Birmingham players who held the crease for a brief period were Glenn Maxwell (19 runs), Jackob Bethell and Jake Lintott contributed 27 runs each.
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