DTVHINDIMLC 2024: Travis Head’s bat broke due to Andre Russell’s lethal bowling, video goes viral
This incident was seen in the 11th match of Major League Cricket MLC (Image Credit- Twitter/X) A strange incident has been seen in match number 11 of the ongoing Major League Cricket (MLC) 2024. Let us tell you that in this match, Australian opener Travis Head’s bat broke on the bowling of Caribbean all-rounder Andre Russell, the video of which went viral on social media in no time. This 11th match of the tournament was played between Los Angeles Knight Riders (LAKR) and Washington Freedom (WSF) at Church Street Park Stadium in Mooresville. During Washington’s innings in this match, Russell bowled a short length ball, on which Head’s bat broke while playing a pull shot and fell in the mid-on region. Also, as soon as Head’s bat broke, his reaction was also worth watching. Watch this viral video of Travis Head’s bat breaking Washington Freedom (WSF) won the match by 8 wickets On the other hand, if we tell you the status of the match, Washington Freedom has won by 8 wickets against Los Angeles Knight Riders. Losing the toss and batting first, Los Angeles was all out on a total score of 129 runs in 18.4 overs. Saif Badar was the only one who could play the best innings of 35 runs for the team, while Andre Russell contributed 20 runs. Apart from this, no other player could score more runs. Talking about Washington’s bowling, Saurabh Netravalkar got the maximum 4 wickets, Glenn Maxwell got 3, Lockie Ferguson got 2 and Rachin Ravindra got 1 wicket. After this, Washington Freedom came out to chase the target of 130 runs given by Los Angeles, and achieved it in just 16 overs on the basis of Travis Head’s brilliant innings of 54 runs. Apart from Head, captain Steve Smith remained unbeaten on 42 and Andries Goos remained unbeaten on 15*. From Los Angeles’ side, only Spencer Johnson and Shadley van Schalkwyk got 1-1 wickets.
PCB, upset with Pakistan’s poor performance, made such a rule that Babar Azam and the team will be left banging their heads
PCB officials unanimously decided that there will be no compromise on merit, performance and fitness for selection in the Pakistan team. Pakistan Team (Pic Source X) The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has taken a big decision to facilitate the identification and development of talented cricketers in the country. The board wants to improve its domestic structure. In such a situation, a meeting was held in Lahore under the chairmanship of National Cricket Academy Chairman Mohsin Naqvi to find ways to improve. Pakistan have not been at their best in any mega tournament since reaching the final of the 2022 T20 World Cup. They failed to advance to the Super 8s from the first round of the ODI World Cup last year and the current T20 World Cup. Not just this, after the loss against a smaller team like USA, the Men in Green and skipper Babar Azam have faced criticism from fans as well as former cricketers. To stop this downfall of Babar Azam and Co., Naqvi held a three-hour long meeting which was attended by COO PCB, Salman Naseer, CFO PCB, Javed Murtaza, directors of International Cricket, High Performance Centers, Domestic Cricket, PSL, Commercial, and PCB officials. What happened in the PCB meeting According to a statement issued by the PCB, Naqvi stressed on promoting quality domestic cricket at all levels. He also announced that various tournaments will be held regularly at the club level as well as the national level. Along with this, the PCB chairman also mentioned that talented players should be professionally groomed by excellent coaches, who will help them hone their skills. Now Pakistani players will be evaluated mainly on the basis of performance, fitness and merit. PCB further wrote in its statement, “A master coach will be appointed to train domestic cricket coaches.” Domestic tournaments are now very important to get into the Pakistan team It was also discussed that players will have to participate in domestic competitions to be selected in the national team. Also, the selection criteria for the national team will be based on the performance and fitness displayed by the cricketers in domestic tournaments. During the meeting, the officials unanimously decided that there will be no compromise on merit, performance and fitness. The meeting decided to hold tournaments for all three formats of the game to promote quality domestic cricket in the upcoming season. The chairman also highlighted the need for immediate efforts to discover new talent at the grassroots level. He reiterated that investing in new talent will boost cricket at the grassroots level and help achieve good results.
Does Travis Head’s opening partner not get along well with Abhishek Sharma? Big statement given after the match
Abhishek Sharma and I admire each other a lot, I would love to bat with him…: Travis Head RCB vs SRH (Pic Source-X) The 30th match of the 17th season of IPL was played at M Chinnaswamy ground in Bengaluru. In this match, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad were face to face. In which Sunrisers Hyderabad gave a record-breaking performance and won over RCB by 25 runs. In this match, Hyderabad, batting first, scored a record 287 runs on the basis of Travis Head’s century. However, in reply, RCB team could score only 262 runs for 7 wickets. Dinesh Karthik contributed the maximum 83 runs for RCB, although his innings went in vain. Bangalore bowlers were washed away by Hyderabad batsmen. Many batsmen of Hyderabad together had set this big target. First of all, Abhishek Sharma started by playing an inning of 34 runs in 22 balls. Apart from this, opening batsman Travis Head scored his fourth century of the season. Travis Head scored a brilliant century for SRH, he scored 102 runs in just 41 balls with the help of 9 fours and 8 sixes. There was a big partnership of 108 runs between the two openers. After the dismissal of Head, the runs were being controlled, but Heinrich Klaasen, who came to bat, continued the game in the same style. He scored 67 runs on 31 balls. During this, 2 fours and 7 sixes came from his bat. Apart from this, Aiden Markram also batted amazingly and scored 32 runs on 17 balls. I love batting with him – Travis Head “The pitch surface was amazing. We also got feedback from the groundsmen regarding the pitch. We thought that we would have to adapt to the pitch and play well in the first six overs. But we had a batting order that had the license to wash the bowlers.” Head further talked about batting with Abhishek Sharma. “Abhishek (Sharma) and I admire each other a lot. We rely on each other’s confidence. I love batting with him.”
IPL 2024: Travis Head’s century became the turning point of the match in RCB vs SRH
Travis Head batted brilliantly and scored an explosive century of 102 runs in 41 balls with the help of 9 fours and 8 sixes. Travis Head (Pic Source-X) Today i.e. on 15th April, in the best match of the Indian Premier League 2024, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 25 runs. In this match, experienced opener Travis Head batted brilliantly for Sunrisers Hyderabad and scored an important century for his team. This century of his was the turning point in the victory of Sunrisers Hyderabad. Let us tell you, Travis Head did not spare any bowler of this RCB and hit hard against everyone. For Sunrisers Hyderabad, opener Travis Head batted brilliantly and scored an explosive century of 102 runs in 41 balls with the help of 9 fours and 8 sixes. The best thing about Head was that he started playing aggressive cricket from his very first ball of the match and RCB were never able to make a comeback in the match. Even though other players from the Hyderabad team batted aggressively, due to the head batting, RCB was completely on the back foot. Apart from Head, Heinrich Klaasen played a stormy inning of 67 runs in 31 balls with the help of 2 fours and 7 sixes. Abhishek Sharma contributed 34 runs while young batsman Abdul Samad played a brilliant inning of 37* runs in 10 balls with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes. Aiden Markram also contributed 32* runs in 17 balls with the help of 2 fours and 2 sixes. Sunrisers Hyderabad won the match RCB could not achieve the target of 288 runs and lost the match by 25 runs. On behalf of the host, Dinesh Karthik played a brilliant inning of 83 runs in 35 balls with the help of 5 fours and 7 sixes but he failed to lead his team to victory. This innings of Travis Head was praised by many people on social media also. All the fans of Sunrisers Hyderabad would like that the experienced batsman should bat like this in the upcoming matches and play an important role in the victory of his team. 5 Australian players who scored half century in debut IPL match IPL 2024: These 11 foreign players took crores of rupees but flopped IPL 2024: 5 players who hit the most sixes in the 19th and 20th overs of IPL 5 fastest bowlers in IPL history Who are the head coaches of all 10 teams in IPL 2024? Which team has won the most matches against RCB in Chinnaswamy? IPL 2024: 3 former RCB players who are creating havoc in SRH 4 players who have played more than 500 T20 matches MS Dhoni: Dhoni’s amazing record as CSK captain Captains of which teams were changed before the start of IPL 2024
