Rashid Khan's biggest six in bizarre BBL match

The Adelaide Strikers were in all sorts of trouble tottering at 46 for 7 when Rashid came out swinging to take their total close to a hundred.  

That Rashid Khan is no pushover with the bat is a known fact by now. He bailed Afghanistan out of trouble at least a couple of times in the Asia Cup in September. So, when he hit the biggest six of the night in the BBL game between Adelaide Strikers and Perth Scorchers, not many eyebrows were raised. In fact, the anticipation for a magical turn around had just about to take shape based on Rashid’s bat swing, when the Afghan leggie was dismissed by David Willey for an entertaining inning of 21.

In a match that had more than one bizarre incident – each of that one of a kind - in it, Rashid’s cameo demanded a special mention. The Adelaide Strikers were in all sorts of trouble tottering at 46 for 7 when Rashid came out swinging to take their total close to a hundred.  

Rashid 12-ball 21-run effort had two sixes over mid-wicket but the one he hit off Andrew Tye was the biggest of the night. In the third delivery of the 14th over, Rashid cleared his front leg to give himself and gave it an almighty swing to deposit the 140 km/h fuller length delivery from Tye deep into the stands at the Optus Stadium at Perth. The six was measured to 93 meters long.

Rashid Khan sends one 93 metres 😱

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Rashid’s brief little innings, however, was not enough to make a match out of it. The Scorchers pace, led by Jhye Richardson (3/7), bowled the Strikers out for a paltry 88 before going on to chase the target with 7 wickets in hand. Scorchers did take their own time to reach the total as captain Ashton Turner played a bizarre inning of 24 off 46 balls.  He faced the majority of Rashid Khan’s 24 deliveries, in which the leggie gave away only 9 runs.

The match was marked by bizarre incidents starting from the toss when Cricket Australia’s experimental bat-flip failed for the first time after the bat landed on its edge. The bat had to be flipped again. Then came the comedy of errors run out of Strikers’ opener Alex Carey. Scorchers took three attempts before finally running him out.