
Rahul Tiwari
khelja|13-07-2024
This is called a real all-rounder. The one who scored 34 runs in just one over. Forget about the rest of the innings. And, when he took the ball to bowl, he became a nightmare for the opponents. He bowled so explosively in the T20 match that he single-handedly wrote the story of the team's victory. We are talking about Matthew Waite, a player from England who is still unknown to international cricket. The strength of his that we are talking about was seen in T20 Blast.
The match was between Worcestershire and Birmingham Bears. Matthew Waite was a part of Worcestershire in this match played on 12th July.
This team also batted first in the match. Worcestershire had a bad start in this match which was reduced to 17-17 overs due to rain. But, the result was much better than the start. And, there was only one reason for this, Matthew Waite.Matthew Waite first created a stir by coming in to bat at number 8. He batted at a strike rate of 450 and scored an unbeaten 36 runs in just 8 balls. During this devastating innings, Matthew Waite scored 34 runs in just one over. This was the last over of Worcestershire's innings, in which right-handed batsman Matthew Waite scored 34 runs by hitting 5 sixes and a four.
Waite hit a four on just the second ball of the over, apart from that he hit the remaining 5 balls in the air and crossed the boundary.View this post on Instagram
This was about Matthew Waite's batting. Now take a look at his bowling, which was no less explosive than his batting. It was because of the storm he created with the ball that Worcestershire got a big win of 55 runs. The entire team of Birmingham Bears collapsed for just 132 runs while chasing the target of 188 runs. They could not even play the full 17 overs. Their game ended in just 15.2 overs, behind which the biggest role was of Matthew Waite's 3.2 overs.
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Matthew Waite took 4 wickets for 29 runs in 3.2 overs. During this, he bowled 9 dot balls. While his economy was 8.70. In front of his bowling, players from top to bottom order of Birmingham Bears were seen doing bap-bap, which benefited Worcestershire and they won the match and got 2 points. Matthew Waite became the hero of this victory of Worcestershire, who made his mark with both bat and ball as a true all-rounder.




