Jake Weatherald: Strikers batsman gets run-out on both ends in bizarre BBL 10 dismissal vs Thunder

Jake Weatherald: The batsman from Adelaide Strikers registered a rare-case scenario of getting run-out on both the ends.

During the 51st match of the ongoing 10th season of the Big Bash League between Sydney Thunder and Adelaide Strikers in Adelaide, Adelaide Strikers opening batsman Jake Weatherald was dismissed in an unusual manner.

It all happened on the penultimate delivery of the 10th over when Strikers batsman hit a straight drive off Sydney Thunder spinner Chris Green. While Salt timed the ball well, he hit it straight back to the stumps at the non-striker’s end.

Green, who touched the ball in his attempt to stop it before it touched the stumps, immediately appealed for a run-out realizing at Weatherald’s bat was in the airborne.

After the ball ricocheted off the stumps, Salt expressed interest in sneaking a single. Weatherald, who was initially found guilty of ball-watching, eventually responded to the call but couldn’t complete the run as he was short of his crease at the striker’s end.

It was only upon watching the reviews that the confusion settled and third umpire Greg Davidson ruled Weatherald out for the first appeal. Opening the batting with wicket-keeper batsman Alex Carey (29), Weatherald departed after scoring 31 (26) with the help of two fours and as many sixes.

Jake Weatherald gets run-out on both ends

What just happened?! Jake Weatherald somehow got run out at both ends, on the same ball! 🤯

A @KFCAustralia Bucket Moment | #BBL10 pic.twitter.com/eLRurkBQtp

— KFC Big Bash League (@BBL) January 24, 2021

How Twitterati reacted:

Almost too farcical for words. Great work by Chris Green on the first run out, and Sam Billings lucky not to injure himself flying for the second. https://t.co/ZOYbSkNKr1

— Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) January 24, 2021

Hold on. Weatherald was run out at both ends!

That’s crazy. Double play #bbl10 https://t.co/e5q9FjGJes

— Tim Michell (@tim_michell) January 24, 2021

Jake Weatherald run out twice in one delivery #BBL10

— Andrew McGlashan (@andymcg_cricket) January 24, 2021

Weatherald has to be the worst at running between the wickets since Inzimam. Incredibly lazy all innings. Never seen someone run out twice in 1 play

— Kane Anderson (@DrKAndo) January 24, 2021

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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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