Watch: Sam Konstas of New South Wales was bowled trying to sweep Victoria’s Scott Boland on the 13th ball of a Sheffield Shield match at Sydney.
First over: Boland to Konstas
Boland bowled the first over of the game at the SCG after Jack Edwards won the toss and opted to bat. Konstas tried to flick the first ball, but it took the leading edge and sped through the slips, and the batters ran two.
As Boland ran in to bowl the second ball, Konstas was already in position: he lapped the ball over the slips to the fence. Next, he walked down the pitch and dismissed the third ball to the extra-cover fence.
Konstas now tried another lap, but was hit on the pad. The fifth ball was outside the leg-stump. He tried to push the sixth ball to cover and set off to keep the strike, but Nic Maddinson rightly turned down the single.
Second over: O’Neill to Maddinson
As Fergus O’Neill began the next over, Maddinson took a leaf out of Konstas’ book and charged down the wicket. The ball passed harmlessly down the leg to wicketkeeper Sam Harper.
The second ball, short of a length, took Maddinson’s edge and ran to the deep-third fence. Maddinson stepped out to loft the third ball to the straight boundary and the fourth ball over it. To the fifth ball, he stepped out again and slog swept, this time barely clearing the leaping long-on. O’Neill adjusted his line to outside off, and Maddinson was beaten.
The wicket: Boland to Konstas
Konstas now shuffled across and tried to sweep the first ball of the third over, his seventh of the innings. He missed, and Boland’s ball hit the stumps. After 2.1 overs, NSW were 30-1. Konstas walked back for a seven-ball 10. “It was unexplainable really. I don't know what was going on,” explained Phil Jaques on air.
Maddinson did not last long either: Mitchell Perry snared him for a 27-ball 33. Kurtis Patterson got 37, but NSW slipped to 124-6 against Boland (4-56) and O’Neill (3-68). It took a 94-ball 89 from Oliver Davies to help them reach 238. In response, Victoria slipped to 25-3 before Marcus Harris (33 not out) and Harry Dixon (38 in 27) added 59. At stumps, Victoria were 92-4.
Watch the first 2.1 overs of the NSW innings
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