Super Smash Cricket: Neil Broom reverse ramps Blair Tickner to hit jaw-dropping six in Otago vs Central Districts match

Dixit Bhargav | 08/01/2021
Super Smash Cricket: Neil Broom reverse ramps Blair Tickner to hit jaw-dropping six in Otago vs Central Districts match

Neil Broom reverse ramps Blair Tickner: The batsman from Otago played a highly innovative shot off a premier fast bowler.

During the 11th match of the ongoing season of Super Smash between Otago and Central Districts in Dunedin, Otago opening batsman Neil Broom arguably played the shot of the match against Central Districts pacer Blair Tickner.

It all happened on the fourth delivery of the second over when Broom played a reverse ramp shot off Tickner to exhibit extra ordinary stroke-making.

Having initially moved towards the leg-side against a full delivery, Broom was quick enough to adjust and eventually made sound contact with the ball to guide it over the third-man region for a six.

Opening the batting with Hamish Rutherford (25), Broom didn’t last long as he departed after scoring 15 (7) with the help of one four and one six. Chasing a mammoth 224-run target, Otago required more such shots but it wasn’t to be despite Nick Kelly 75 (54) in the middle-order.

For Central Districts, spinner Ajaz Patel was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 4-0-34-3. While Doug Bracewell picked a couple of wickets, Joey Field and Ticket dismissed a batsman each to register a 53-run victory.

After Otago captain Jacob Duffy won the toss and invited the visitors in to bat, Central Districts scored a formidable 223/5 in 20 overs on the back of captain George Worker’s maiden T20 century. Opening the batting with Bayley Wiggins (16), Worker amassed 106 (58) with the help of six fours and eight sixes before getting out in the penultimate over.

Neil Broom reverse ramps Blair Tickner

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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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