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T20 Blast: Carlos Brathwaite, Samit Patel both retired in the same match. watch

June 6, 2022
Bharat Times English News

Time is changing. And with this changing time T20 cricket is also changing. The same happened during the NatWest T20 Blast match, where two batsmen retired keeping their team’s interest at the top. The game was being played between Nottinghamshire and Birmingham Bears at Edgbaston where Carlos Brathwaite and his rival Samit Patel both retired at the final stage of the game.

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It was a rain-hit game; So, it was reduced to eight overs. After being included, the Bears posted a score of 98/5 on the board, following Chris Benjamin’s quick runs off 17 balls with 36 balls hitting four fours and two sixes. West Indies came to bat in the fifth over and made 17 runs in 11 balls and hit two fours and a six. However, he was soon retired with his team’s score of 80/4 at the end of the seventh over. Sam Hein replaced him in the middle.

Meanwhile, chasing 99, Knotts had a poor start but came back well, riding on the stand between Ollie Pope and Alex Hales, who cost 55. When Samit Patel walked in the last over, his team still needed 15. But after that he scored only two runs. The number of balls he got run out, he retired. Tom Moores hit Craig Miles for a six, but could not take his team home. The Bears won the match by one run and moved up to the second place on the points table in the North Group.

This is not the first time a batsman has retired from T20 cricket. Ravi Ashwin also resorted to this remedy IPL Recently match against LSG. With teams ruthless in the final stages of the game, optimizing fresh foot clean hitting could be the solution as a tired batsman may struggle to summon his strength.

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