Australian pacer Mitchell Starc bowled on the wildest deliveries seen in recent memory against Sri Lanka in the third T20I game against Sri Lanka on Tuesday, 15 February.
Bowling his final over - the 18th over of the first innings, Starc’s fifth delivery slipped out of his hands and went metres over the batsman’s head beating keeper Matthew Wade in the process. It was an attempted slower ball that did not stick in his hand and ended up lobbing up as a beamer.
Commentators in the game speculated if they have ever seen a ball go that wide in world cricket and comparisons were drawn to Steve Harmison’s Ashes delivery as well.
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Thankfully the delivery did not do a lot of damage to Australia’s position in the game, as they had cramped up Sri Lanka fairly well throughout the first innings. They managed to choke out the opposition for just 121 runs in the first innings and then returned to chase it down with more than three overs remaining.
With the win, Australia has extended themselves to an unassailable lead of 3-0 in the series and are continuing their domination in the shortest format of the game in the run-up to the 2022 T20 World Cup.