New Zealand batsman Henry Nicholls discovered the most unlucky way to get out during the third Test against England. Nicholls struggled when he charged Jack Leach and the ball took off from the non-striker’s bat and went high in the air where mid-off Alex Lee completed a simple catch. This almost forced the commentators to quip that the New Zealand batsman had found ‘the most unlucky way to get out’.
Nonetheless, Twitter reacted to the incident and ensured that Nichols became a trending topic on social media. Meanwhile Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar Reacting to this incident also said that in gully cricket the nonstriker would have been given out.
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— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) 24 June 2022
Struggling Henry Nicholls had scored 19 runs in 99 balls when he fell in a whimsical fashion at the stroke of tea. Nicholls runs the ball powerfully on Leach only to deflect non-striker Mitchell’s bat and loop gently towards Alex Lees at mid-off.
Mitchell may have been dismissed for eight, but England, in one of several poor review choices, decided to challenge Matthew Potts’s dismissed lbw appeal, with replays confirming that the batsman would have been out. In-form Daryl Mitchell powered New Zealand’s revival after Stuart Broad was dismissed early for England on the first day of the third Test at Headingley on Thursday.
By the end of the game, New Zealand were 225 for five, with Mitchell scoring an unbeaten 78 at Lord’s and Trent Bridge.
those motivated efforts were insufficient to stop World Test champions trail 2-0 in the three-match series but Mitchell will aim to add another century as the Black Caps try to save a win in the series finale.
James Anderson’s ankle injury caused England forward Broad to remove Tom Latham in the first over of the day and then grabbed the prize wicket of New Zealand captain Kane Williamson for two for 45 in 17 overs.
However, under blue skies and on a good pitch following Williamson’s decision to bat first after winning the toss with New Zealand at 83 for four, Mitchell persisted.
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