Adil Rashid Googly: Watch English spinner bamboozles Kevin O’Brien in Ageas Bowl ODI

Dixit Bhargav | 01/08/2020
Adil Rashid Googly: Watch English spinner bamboozles Kevin O'Brien in Ageas Bowl ODI

Adil Rashid Googly: The English spinner picked an important wicket in the form of Kevin O’Brien in the Southampton ODI.

During the second ODI of the ongoing Ireland’s tour of England in Southampton, England spinner Adil Rashid bamboozled Ireland batsman Kevin O’Brien to pick his first wicket today.

It all happened on the last delivery of the 16th over when O’Brien had no answer whatsoever to Rashid’s googly. Having drawn the batsman on the front foot, Rashid brought the delivery into him as it hit the stumps traveling through the gap between O’Brien’s bat and pad.

Coming in to bat at No. 5 in the 15th over, O’Brien failed again to assist the younger batsmen around him as he ended up scoring 3 (7).

Rashid, who dismissed O’Brien in his first over itself, bowled his quota of 10 overs on the trot to finish with bowling figures of 10-0-34-3. In addition to O’Brien, Rashid also sent back the likes of Harry Tector (28) and Lorcan Tucker (21).

Not providing any momentum to the visitors in the middle overs, Rashid’s spell has played a vital role in them scoring in vicinity of 3.5 runs per over at the end of 38 overs.

Playing his 102nd ODI, Rashid has become the first English spinner to pick 150 wickets. With his dismissals coming at an average of 31.05, an economy rate of 5.55 and a strike rate of 33.5, Rashid is currently the fifth-highest wicket-taker for England in ODIs.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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