WATCH: Sam Harper prepares for ramp shot but plays cut after Kane Richardson pitches ball outside the pitch

Sam Harper prepares for ramp shot but plays cut: Renegades’ wicket-keeper batsman was trying too much against Scorchers’ pacer.

During the seventh match of the ongoing ninth season of the Indian Premier League between Perth Scorchers and Melbourne Renegades in Perth, Melbourne Renegades wicket-keeper batsman Sam Harper upped the innovation quotient of his game against Perth Scorchers pacer Kane Richardson.

It all happened on the second delivery of the fourth over when Harper pre-meditated to play a ramp shot over the wicket-keeper’s head.

Sensing the batsman’s intention, Richardson bowled a wide delivery to the extent that it ended up pitching outside the pitch. In no mood of leaving the ball, Harper ended up cutting the ball for no run towards the point fielder.

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With the ball landing outside the pitch, it should have been called a no-ball but it wasn’t the case as the umpire ruled it as a legal delivery.

Opening the batting with captain Aaron Finch (28), Harper scored 15 (12) with the help of one four and six each before getting out to Scorchers pacer Joel Paris in the sixth over.

After Finch won the toss and invited the hosts in to bat, Perth posted a handsome 196/7 in their allotted quota of 20 overs on the back of half-centuries from batsman Cameron Bancroft (51) and captain Mitchell Marsh (56*). Coming in to bat at No. 5 in the 14th over, Marsh’s eighth T20 half-century saw him hitting a four and six sixes.

With bowling figures of 4-0-22-4, Richardson was the pick of Melbourne bowlers.

Sam Harper prepares for ramp shot but plays cut

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