How to butcher an easy run-out three times in ONE ball
Could this be the biggest butchering of a run-out in cricket history?
The Caribbean Premier League has witnessed a comical sequence of fielding, resulting in the Trinbago Knight Riders failing to affect a seemingly easy run-out three times in one ball.
On the final delivery of the Guyana Amazon Warriors’ innings in Monday’s final, the Knight Riders should have had either Rayad Emrit or Imran Tahir stone dead.
With Emrit on strike to Dwayne Bravo, Tahir snuck through for a bye after wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin missed with a shy at the stumps.
Both batsmen were about halfway down the pitch when Ramdin missed the first run-out opportunity, but Bravo was presented with another when he fielded Ramdin’s throw.
However Bravo fumbled the ball with Emrit well out of his ground, gifting the Warriors a run.
Riding their luck, Emrit and Tahir decided to try for a suicidal second, and Bravo pegged the ball back to Ramdin with plenty of time to spare.
But the keeper inexplicably missed the stumps from a mere half-metre away, meaning the Warriors added two crazy runs to their total.
And it wasn’t the only bizarre mishap for the Knight Riders in the match.
Needing five runs for victory, players ran out onto the field after thinking Colin Munro had blasted the match-winning six, but were left red-faced when the ball fell short of the boundary.
They were forced to retreat from the field and wait one more ball before celebrating.
Katich shows coaching credentials as Trinbago go back-to-back
Simon Katich guided Trinbago to back-to-back Caribbean Premier League titles, outclassing the Amazon Warriors at Brian Lara Stadium.
The Amazon Warriors restricted the visitors to 9-147 then overhauled the total with eight wickets in hand and 15 balls remaining.
Katich also masterminded the Twenty20 franchise’s successful campaign in 2017.
Cricket Australia (CA) hired Ricky Ponting as a T20 coaching consultant earlier this year. CA view Ponting as a key figure in helping the national side prepare for the World T20, a tournament that Australia are yet to win and will host in 2020.
But with Ponting expected to be unavailable for the T20 leg of next month’s tour of the United Arab Emirates, CA could do a lot worse than enlisting Katich to help fellow West Australian Justin Langer.
Katich, who like Ponting continues to juggle commentating and coaching commitments, has never performed a formal coaching role for CA and rowed with the governing body during last year’s pay dispute.
But the 43-year-old has strong relationships with many Australian players, having provided informal advice while commentating both home and abroad in recent years.
The former Test opener also has plenty of Indian Premier League coaching experience, having earned rave reviews for his work with the Kolkata Knight Riders.
Trinbago dominated the CPL decider, bouncing back from qualifying-final and final-round losses to Guyana.
Katich was forced to rejig his batting order for the finals following the departure of Chris Lynn, arguably the most potent batsman in the defending champions’ squad.
“It’s never easy when you’re the hunted team. A lot of teams came hard at us this year,” Katich said.
“To everyone’s credit we remained calm and got the job done, saved our best for last.”
with AAP
