The Lemon Fool

Anyone see Moeen Ali's amazing innings? Lots of records broken. 33 off one over. Fastest 50. Bairstow and his stand broke the South Africans.

John

redsturgeon wrote:Anyone see Moeen Ali's amazing innings? Lots of records broken. 33 off one over. Fastest 50. Bairstow and his stand broke the South Africans.

John

I saw the last 20 minutes of the SA innings highlights on BBC2, Stubbs getting to 50 in 19 balls!!

Did I hear correctly that Ali had made 50 in 9 balls?

BigB wrote:

redsturgeon wrote:Anyone see Moeen Ali's amazing innings? Lots of records broken. 33 off one over. Fastest 50. Bairstow and his stand broke the South Africans.

John

I saw the last 20 minutes of the SA innings highlights on BBC2, Stubbs getting to 50 in 19 balls!!

Did I hear correctly that Ali had made 50 in 9 balls?

He made 50 in 16 balls faced, it may be that only nine scoring shots were required, he hit six sixes so that would require 14 off three balls without a six that seems unlikely.

John

Ironically it was a Chris Jordan over that provided the finishing touch. When Stubbs was hitting anything within reach for 6, he bowled an over for just 3 runs, which made their unlikely chances impossible.

Great fun for all (except SA of course). I'm a test cricket fan but T20 is undeniably fantastic entertainment.

redsturgeon wrote:Anyone see Moeen Ali's amazing innings? Lots of records broken. 33 off one over. Fastest 50. Bairstow and his stand broke the South Africans.

John

Just seen this, bloody hell and some say cricket is boring(you cannot be serious ). What a show.

nimnarb wrote:Just seen this, bloody hell and some say cricket is boring(you cannot be serious ). What a show.

T20 is great
try (and stay wake) watching a 5 day slow game that ends in draw, and re-evaluate it then

Sorry I may have jinxed it!

John