Mohammad Hafeez dead ball: David Warner smashes six off Hafeez’s double-bounce delivery in T20 World Cup semi-final

Dixit Bhargav | 11/11/2021
Mohammad Hafeez dead ball: David Warner smashes six off Hafeez's double-bounce delivery in T20 World Cup semi-final

Mohammad Hafeez dead ball: The veteran Pakistani all-rounder erred on the first ball that he bowled at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium tonight.

During the second semi-final of the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup 2021 between Pakistan and Australia in Dubai, Australia opening batter David Warner made optimum use of a rare double-bounce delivery.

It all happened on what would’ve been the first legal delivery of the eighth over when veteran Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez mistakenly bowled a double-bounce delivery. In what appeared to be a case of the ball coming late out of Hafeez’s hand, Warner stepped out to reach the ball and hit is over the mid-wicket region for as many as six runs.

In the general run of things, batters tend to not play a shot off such deliveries. However, Warner saw it as a scoring opportunity and rightly so. According to the rules of the game, such a delivery is a no-ball on which runs can be scored legally. Hence, nothing wrong or untoward with Warner hitting a six off a no-ball such as this.

Chasing a 177-run target, Australia are in the game on the back of Warner standing tall on his potential. In vicinity of scoring a second consecutive half-century, Warner is crucial of Australia’s hopes of playing their second T20 World Cup final.

In the first innings, Pakistan scored a competitive 176/4 in 20 overs after Finch won the toss and chose to field. Pakistan posting such a total was primarily on the back of individual half-centuries from wicket-keeper batter Mohammad Rizwan (67) and batter Fakhar Zaman (55*).

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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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