VIDEO | Yasir Shah gets lucky after terrible attempt to collect ball results in delfection taking bails off
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When things start to fall in place, it happens in a fashion that would leave you as a mere spectator. The 10-wicket day that saw Yasir Shah picking wickets like plucking apples from a garden, he ran Kiwi keeper BJ Watling out with the mere deflection off his hands to dislodge the bails.
Yasirâs spell yesterday perfectly encapsulated the art of leg-spin and if you havenât yet watched the game, you have surely missed something spectacular. He used the footmarks to get the maximum bite out of the pitch and his change in pace coupled with the shrewd use of the crease made the batsmen suffer to no end. It was a package for the ages. He picked up no less than 10 wickets over the course of the day to frustrate New Zealand and that went further up when he affected a run-out dismissal.
On the fourth ball in the 30th over of New Zealand innings, Watling had squeezed a Yasir leg-break towards cover and there was a confusion between Watling and Kane Williamson that whether they should go for the run. Amidst the confusion, the duo decided to run, but Hasan Ali was quick to get onto the bowl and he threw the ball towards the bowlerâs end.Â
It was a simple throw that Yasir should have managed to pick and dislodge the bails, but he made a mess of it as he failed to control the ball. The mess up was so obvious that even Sarfraz Ahmed looked confident that Yasir had missed the opportunity with the stump mic picking up his voice screaming at Yasir to hold onto the ball. However, replays showed how lucky the spinner really was as the ball hit his palm and deflected onto the stumps before his hand got in the way. While Watling was sliding his bat in, the ball, however, upon deflection, went on to hit the stumps to end Watlingâs brief stay in the middle.Â
