“What a throw”: Shafali Verma’s direct hit on BBL debut amazes Wasim Jaffer

Dixit Bhargav | 14/10/2021
"What a throw": Shafali Verma's direct hit on BBL debut amazes Wasim Jaffer

Shafali Verma’s direct hit: The Indian batter created an instant impact on her Big Bash League debut for Sydney Sixers.

During the first match of the ongoing seventh season of the Women’s Big Bash League between Melbourne Stars and Sydney Sixes in Hobart, Sydney Sixers debutant Shafali Verma’s pinpoint throw earned her team their only wicket after captain Ellyse Perry won the toss and chose to field in a 11-over match.

It all happened on the penultimate delivery of the sixth over when Melbourne Stars batter Elyse Villani pulled a Perry delivery towards Verma at mid-wicket. With non-striker Annabel Sutherland looking to sneak a run, it wasn’t to be as the ball had traveled quick and straight to Verma.

With only a stump to aim, Verma didn’t let the opportunity go waste as she caught Sutherland short of her crease with a pinpoint throw which hit the stumps on the full.

Verma, who has faced some criticism for her fielding in the recent past, earned applause from one and all with her effort at the Bellerive Oval today. Verma, however, couldn’t replicate a similar impact with the bat in hand as it was Sutherland who dismissed her for 8 (10).

Chasing a 100-run target, Sixers registered a 6-wicket victory with four balls to spare on the back of wicket-keeper batter Alyssa Healy scoring a match-winning 57 (27) with the help of 11 fours.

Shafali Verma’s direct hit on BBL debut amazes Wasim Jaffer

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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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