Sam Curran Hat trick: All-rounder Sam Curran has performed a historic feat in England’s cricket league The Hundred. Last Sunday, the Oval Invincibles vs London Spirits match was played, in which the Invincibles registered a big win by 30 runs. With this win, the team has reached the top of the points table. Sam Curran played a huge role in the victory of the Invincibles, who played a blistering innings of 51 runs with the bat and created history by taking 5 wickets and a hat-trick in bowling.
Hat-trick, fifty and then…
In this 15th match of The Hundred League, Oval Invincibles batted first and scored 147 runs in the stipulated 100 balls. Sam Curran came to bat when his team was able to score 80 runs after losing 3 wickets after playing 66 balls. Then came the storm named Sam Curran, who played a quick innings of 51 runs in 22 balls and helped his team reach a big score. In this innings, he did not hit a single four, but definitely hit 6 skyscraper sixes.
When it was his turn to bowl, Sam Curran took his first wicket in the form of Matthew Critchley and two balls later he sent Liam Dawson to the pavilion. Curran completed his hat-trick by dismissing Ollie Stone after Dawson and then Andre Russell on the very next ball. He is only the third bowler to take a hat-trick in the history of the men’s The Hundred League. Before him, Imran Tahir and Tymal Mills have done so.
5 wickets including a hattrick
For Sam Curran, this match was not limited to just a fifty and a hat-trick, but he also took a total of 5 wickets in the match. He gave only 16 runs in 20 balls in this match, in which he sent 5 batsmen to the pavilion. His spell was also special because he bowled 11 dot balls in 20 balls. The names of the batsmen who were dismissed by him are Andre Russell, Matthew Critchley, Liam Dawson, Ollie Stone and Daniel Worrall.
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