When a wicket-keeper saved a batman from getting hit wicket

Jul 20, 2016 at 4:27 PM

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When a wicket-keeper saved a batman from getting hit wicket

Have you ever seen a wicket keeper saving a batsman of the opposition team from getting out? Yes or no?

Surely the answer will be no as the bowling team strives to dismiss a batsman without thinking of the fact that whether the one present on the crease is a top order batsman or a tailender. But what if I tell you that yesterday in a Natwest T20 Blast match a wicket-keeper helped a batsman and saved him from getting dismissed.

It was a match between Northamptonshire and Warwickshire where the captain of Northamptonshire Alex Wakely was at the crease and was batting on a score of 7*. On the second delivery of the fourteenth over he missed a ball which was bowled outside off stump; he tried to play it hard towards on side but missed the delivery. During the course, he moved his hands so fast that he lost control over the bat and bat went flying back over the stumps.

The bat was just a millimetre away from the stumps before the Australian wicket-keeper Matthew Wade, who was more concerned about catching the ball and stumping the batsman accidently prevented the bat from hitting the stumps. He swayed his hands from right to left in order to dismiss the batsman but he ended up being touching the bat and prevented the bat from getting a touch with the stumps. This all happened so quickly that even the players and umpires could not understand what happened.  The decision was referred to the third umpire and third umpire declared the batsman not out.

This was a big shocker for the fielding team as it could have been an easy dismissal but due to this act of wicket keeper the batsman escaped a dismissal and was declared not out in the end.

The video of the incident will give you a clear idea that what happened and surely after watching this you will say that wicket-keeper played a key role in preventing the batsman from getting dismissed.

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