"Never before in an international match has a bowler taken four wickets with successive deliveries." ⇒
29 March 2007, early afternoon
About one of my favorite bowlers, Lasith Malinga.
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I have no idea what that means…can you dumb it down a bit for the cricket-naive? :-)
by Ryan on March 29 2007, 9:29 pm #
I need to have people over to watch a game. It’s much easier to explain when one is going on. It’s actually pretty simple. Basically he got 4 batsmen out in a row, which basically never ever happens.
by ramanan on March 29 2007, 9:40 pm #
When a team is batting (on offense) they have 11 batters, they put them up in succession with 2 on at a time. This offense is divided into ‘overs’; 6 balls are bowled per over. The ‘offense’ is over when either all the batters are out (caught out/run out/wicket hit—most dramatic) or 50 overs is up (300 balls bowled).
So this guy took out almost half their batters in 4 straight balls. What made it more intense was it was really close to the 50th over, south africa needed like 2 runs to win (a tiny amount) and had he got one more wicket, sri lanka would have come back and won an obscenely close game.
by Ananthan on March 30 2007, 3:54 pm #