Watch: Harry Brook was cleaned up by Tom Hartley in the Hundred yesterday (August 20) with a dream delivery that pitched on leg stump and spun past the outside edge and hit middle.
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Batting first at Old Trafford, Manchester Originals set up the game nicely by scoring 164-6 off their 100 balls. Skipper Jos Buttler led the way, blasting his way to a 47-ball 75. The next-highest score in the innings was 28 by Phil Salt and Paul Walter. Adil Rashid was the best bowler for the Northern Superchargers, picking 4-18 from 20 balls.
In response, the Superchargers’ innings went nowhere as none of their batters were able to get past 15. By the time they reached 50, they had lost six wickets, reducing all hopes of a victory to a bare mathematical possibility.
Calvin Harrison was the destroyer in chief for the Originals as picked up 5-11 in 20 balls. However, the most eye-catching wicket belonged to left-arm spinner Tom Hartley.
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Brook, recently omitted from the England World Cup squad, came into bat at No.5 and struggled to get going. Having scored just two runs off six balls, he got a near-unplayable delivery from Hartley.
Bowling from round the wicket, the left-arm spinner pitched the ball on a back of good length just outside the leg stump and got it to turn sharply past Brook’s prodding outside edge and crash on to the top of his middle stump.
Brook was visibly shaken as he took a moment to look back at the shattered stumps and realise that he had just been beaten by a wonderful delivery.
The Northern Superchargers struggled their way through to 83 in the end and lost the match by nearly as many runs – 81.
Watch Harry Brook get bamboozled by a sharp-turning delivery that crashes into his middle stump:
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