T20 Blast: Josh Poysden produces a ripper to dismiss Steven Croft

He ended the game with the figures of 1/18.

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Josh Poysden. (photo by Steve Feeney/Action Plus via Getty Images)

We have seen Shane Warne bowling the ball of the century to Mike Gatting at Old Trafford in 1993. Twenty-five years later, a little known leg-break bowler from Birmingham Bears, Josh Poysden, brought back the memory – this time in the ongoing T20 Blast at Edgbaston. His feat in the game against Lancashire Lightning on Wednesday left everyone thrilled.

Poysden, 27, came to bowl at a time when Lancashire was already in a tricky situation and it was the final ball of the 10th over that he delivered to No. 6 Steven Croft. The leg-spinner pitched it in the middle and leg-stump area as the batsman tried to defend the ball with no footwork.

He was completely opened and in a split second, the ball had hit the top of off-stump before hitting the visor of the wicket-keeper. The bamboozled batsman stared in disbelief and smiled as he walked back to the hut. The excited commentator even said that English spinner Adil Rashid bowled Indian captain Virat Kohli through a similar delivery in one of the ODIs recently.

The Bears registered a seven-wicket victory after Lancashire were bowled out for 102 and are in the hunt for a place in the quarterfinals. The losing side, however, had little to worry since their place in the last eight was already assured.

Poysden’s match performance

Poysden, however, got only one wicket in the game for 18 runs in four overs and it was Olliver Hannon-Dalby who was the wrecker-in-chief for the Bears with 4 for 20 and bagged the Man of the Match award. Earlier, Lancashire captain Dane Vilas won the toss and elected to bat but none of his team’s batsmen could negotiate with the Birmingham bowlers. Youngster Danny Lamb, who came out to bat at No. 8, was the top scorer with 24 runs to his name.

The Bears overhauled the modest target in 14.1 overs for the loss of just three wickets. A 68-run opening partnership between Ian Bell (34) and Ed Pollock (36) meant that the game was never going to have any thrilling element in it.

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