Darren Sammy Enough for Everyone

T20 has always been a treat to watch no matter which team or which country. Every match is a nail-bitter. This time it’s Bangladesh who is providing a treat for everyone. 

 The same is being done by the trendsetters in the cricket, the Caribbeans. This time it was the two time world cup winner and former captain of the West Indies cricket team, Darren Sammy.

          Sammy dropped in late and the assault made Rajshahi Kings win over the table toppers Khulna Titans, with his blazing innings of sixes and fours, Sammy scored an unbeaten 71. This score didn’t just bring the team out of the trouble but it also gave them a good total to defend against the lights of amazing batsmen Khulna has. This is not the first time that the team was waiting for some fireworks by the West Indies captain to pull them back from falling off the cliff. After Umar Akmal got out for a leg before decision the team was already down with 4 top order batsmen on a score of 66 and the match was down for 11 overs.

          With just 9 overs left in the innings, Sammy took his time to put his eye on the ball until it started looking like a football and adjusted his radar according to the pitch he was batting on. As he was on it, fellow batsmen Samit Patel and Mehedi Hasan also had to go back to the pavilion with a collective score of the team stuck at just a ton. Sammy started hunting by hitting Pakistani medium fast bowler Junaid Khan, and afterwards since there was no holding back, the aggressive innings was clearly visible in Sammy’s batting style. With this one over the ropes, Sammy made Khulna taste 5 more in which most were the flick to the legside boundary. His 34 ball knock of 71 also had 4 hours in the scorecard. This powerful hard hitting innings added up the score and made the team reach a fighting total of 154 on the fall of 8 wickets. Cooper from Khulna took 2 wickets and conceded 31 runs, Sammy was without a doubt the top scorer.

          In response Khulna ran out of overs and was able to score just 145 with having 6 of their players going back to the pavilion. Wessels here was the top scorer and got out for 36, meanwhile other batsmen did not trouble the scorecard much and regularly kept on going back to where they came from.

Sammy also played his part in the bowling by just conceding 8 runs and taking a vital wicket of the top scorer of opponent team Wessles. Mahmudullah was their last hope but he also fell to the bowlers in the following over. Mohammad Sami and Farhad Reza bowled in the tight lines just to support rest of the team and keep the other batsmen away from the big shots. Sammy was named the player of the match for his overall performance.

The best thing about T20 is that anyone can surprise you, from anywhere. Even a youngster can hit you out of the park and even an experienced campaigner gets out on a duck so you can expect anything.

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