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SS vs HH | Twitter echoes Meredith’s shock after pacer comes up with perfect delivery only to concede four

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ByVenkateswaran N, SportsCafe Editor

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The game of T20 is always cruel on the bowlers, and Riley Meredith realised it the hard way in the Big Bash League Challenger against Sydney Sixers. The Hobart Hurricanes pacer came up with the perfect yorker, only to see a lucky Steve Smith inside edge it through his legs to earn a boundary.

‌Sydney Sixers had a quiet start after being put in by Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League Challenger in Sydney on Friday. After managing one of the total three runs in Nikhil Chaudhary’s first over, the Sixers opener Steve Smith opened up against Riley Meredith in the next over at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

The Australian batter smashed two boundaries in the last two balls of his first before the pacer lost his radar to concede five wides down the leg side. But he was pretty keen to make amends as he came up with a perfect ball in an attempt to dismiss the in-form batter.

But call it fate or whatever, the bowler was let down with the rub of green on Smith’s side as the ball raced to the fence. Meredith angled in a pinpoint yorker, which was full and targeted the leg stump, as an already shuffling Smith tried to work it away to mid-wicket.

But the pacy delivery took an inside edge before nutmegging the batter himself and whizzed past the leg stump and a helplessly watching Matthew Wade behind the stumps. The pacer even appealed, thinking it had come off the pads, but the umpire was quick to dismiss his query, signalling a boundary.

Twitter was in disbelief as replays validated Meredith’s agony, with the ball going inches away from the stumps.

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