WATCH: Jonathan Tattersall’s throw hits Keshav Maharaj behind left thigh in Durham vs Yorkshire Vitality T20 match

Dixit Bhargav | 24/08/2019
WATCH: Jonathan Tattersall's throw hits Keshav Maharaj behind left thigh in Durham vs Yorkshire Vitality T20 match

Jonathan Tattersall’s throw hits Keshav Maharaj: The Yorkshire wicket-keeper batsman hit their left-arm bowler unintentionally.

During the North Group match of the ongoing Vitality T20 Blast between Durham and Yorkshire at Chester-le-Street, Yorkshire wicket-keeper Jonathan Tattersall accidentally hit left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj behind his left thigh.

It all happened when an opposition batsman missed an attempt to sweep Maharaj. With the batsmen trying to sneak in a single, Tattersall rushed in to pick the ball and throw it at the non-striker’s end.

Expecting Tattersall to hit the stumps directly, Maharaj didn’t reach behind the stumps. In what was a horrible throw from the 24-year old wicket-keeper, it ended up hitting Maharaj behind his thigh.

The instant reaction of the bowler rubbing the affected area spoke highly of the pain caused to him. While doing the same, Maharaj also started running in pain.

Talking about the match, Durhan captain Peter Handscomb had won the toss and put the visitors in to bat. On the back of captain Tom Kohler-Cadmore’s 12th T20 half-century, Yorkshire scored 146/6 in 20 overs. Before getting out in the 17th over, Kohler-Cadmore ended up scoring 52 (42) with the help of two fours and a six.

While Durhan fast bowler Nathan Rimmington’s bowling figures of 3-0-16-3 saw him restricting Yorkshire to a mediocre total, none of their batsman put on display an equivalent performance in the batting department. With them getting all out on 132 in 19 overs, Yorkshire won the match by 14 runs. With bowling figures of 4-0-11-5, off-spinner Jack Shutt was the pick of the bowlers for the visitors.

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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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