Sam Curran
Punjab Kings captain Sam Curran has done wonders in England with his all-round performance. In The Hundred tournament, Sam Curran wreaked havoc with the ball after doing wonders with the bat. Actually, on August 4, a match was played between London Spirit and Oval Invincible at Lord’s. In this match, Sam Curran, playing for the Oval, stole the show with his all-round performance.
Batting first in this match, Oval Invincible scored 147 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 100 balls, thanks to Sam Curran’s unbeaten half-century. In the Oval innings, opener David Malan scored 38 runs in 29 balls, but the rest of the top order batsmen failed to score runs. Then Sam Curran, batting at number 5, tore apart the bowlers of London Spirit.
Sam Curran created a sensation with the ball
In response to Oval’s score of 147 runs, London Spirit started fast but could not play freely against the spinners. By 76 balls, 4 batsmen of the team had returned to the pavilion on a score of 100 runs. After this, the ball went into the hands of Sam Curran from where the match completely went in the hands of Oval. Sam Curran first held the ball for the last 15 balls and then after bowling a dot ball, he took a flurry of wickets.
Sam first got Critchley on a duck and then after bowling a dot ball, he got Liam Dawson, Ollie Stone and Andre Russell out on 3 consecutive balls. With the last wicket of Daniel Worrell, Karan bowled out the London team for 117 runs. Sam took 5 wickets for 16 runs in 20 balls. Talking about the points table, Oval Invisible has played 4 matches so far, out of which it has won 3 matches and faced only 1 defeat. At the same time, London Spirit has faced 3 defeats out of 4. London has got only one win.
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