Srinagar: In what can be termed as unluckiest dismissal in Cricket, England batter Harry Brook on Friday suffered a freak dismissal during ongoing first day of Ashes Test at Edgbaston against Australia.
It was a dismissal rarely or ever seen im cricket that left everyone in splits while as batter was left stunned.
Harry Brook was batting at 32 when the ball took a nick off his bat, struck his body and deflected into the stumps, rattling the bails.
To make the dismissal even more ‘freak’, the Australian players all went for the catch after Brook nicked the ball but none of them could get anywhere close to it, losing sight of the ball as it moved back and rattled the stumps.
The incident took place on the second ball of the 38th over of England’s inning, Brook had stitched together a 50-run stand with Joe Root and looked to take the hosts past the 200-run mark when disaster struck.
Facing Nathan Lyon, Brook was delivered a straighter, he tried to play a shot towards the leg side but the ball took a nick off his bat, Australian keeper Alex Carey went for the catch but lost sight of the ball completely as it took a deflection from the batter and went on to rattle the stumps.
Commentating on the dismissal former Australian captain Ricky Ponting said, “Desperately unlucky. I have seen many modes of dismissals but not one like that.”
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