WPL | Twitter in splits as Lee's wild heave deceives Mooney and herself to leave them hallucinating

Gujarat Giants rode on the back of Beth Mooney's maiden fifty of the season and a swashbuckling finish from Tanuja Kanwer to post a competitive total of 174/9 in a crucial Women's Premier League group stgae encounter, against the Delhi Capitals at Kotambi Stadium on Tuesday. Shafali Varma got the visitors' chase off to a flier but could not sustain for long, leaving the onus for maximizing the powerplay on her opening partner Lizelle Lee. However, the South African got off to a sluggish start with the pithc showing signs of grip, and her struggles soon culminated in a blooper for the ages.

Midway through the fourth over, Kashvee Gautam angled in a length ball into Lee's pads who tried to pick it up past the leg-side field for some big runs. However, she went through with her shot too quickly and the Kookburra struck the toe-end of her bat before dribbling towards mid-on. Even so, Lee wandered aimlessly down the wicket, her gaze fixated at the sky along the expected trajectory of her shot, with Mooney behind her no different. The duo moved their eyeballs around in desperation to locate the ball, while Lee aimlessly wandered down the track without any clue of the correct course of action. It was only when Laura Wolvaardt hollered from the toher end asking Lee to get back that both Mooney and her realized that the ball had gone a complete 90 degrees from where they had expected it, drawing a smirk and some giggles from the duo. Lee shrugged her shoulders looking at Wolvaardt while explaining her obliviousness to justfiy her blank walk down the pitch, capping off a hilarious piece of play.

Twitterati was thoroughly amused.

This is funny!

History made!

Usual business

Nice

Obviously

Competitive

Never ever

Big total

Good cameo

New winner