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Biffer wrote: Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:20 am

TedMaul wrote: Thu Sep 14, 2023 7:02 am What’s strange is why the wounds are like that so long after the accident. I almost ripped my right eye out skiing into a tree ten years ago and the wounds were pretty much healed in a month. It’s very strange.

He may have had repeated surgeries. It's the first time he's been seen in public since the accident. I think he must have been badly messed up.

Argentina's women compiled a T20 International record score of 427 as they thrashed an inexperienced Chile side in Buenos Aires on Friday. The total - the highest in women's and men's T20Is - eclipsed the 318-1 made by Bahrain's women against Saudi Arabia in March 2022.

Lucia Taylor hit 169 off 84 balls for Argentina as she made the highest individual score in women's T20Is.

Chile, who fielded seven debutants, were bowled out for 63 in reply.

The 364-run margin of defeat in the match played at the Maurice Runnacles Oval in the St Albans Club, was the heaviest in both women's and men's cricket.

Australian club cricketer takes six wickets in final over to win match

It is a cricketing miracle that could sit alongside Ian Botham 1981 or Ben Stokes 2019. But instead of Headingley, this latest incredible comeback took place in the humble surroundings of the Carrara Community Centre on Australia's Gold Coast.

Club side Surfers Paradise had victory in their grasp against Mudgeeraba in the Gold Coast's Premier League Division Three. Chasing 179, they needed just five runs from the final over with six wickets in hand to win.

Mudgeeraba captain Gareth Morgan had other ideas, taking six wickets in six balls to seal the unlikeliest of victories.

"It is funny, the umpire said to me at the start of the over that I needed to take a hat-trick or something to win the game," Morgan told the Gold Coast Bulletin.

"When it happened he just sort of looked at me."

The chaos began when opener Jake Garland, a reporter for the Gold Coast Bulletin, smacked the ball straight to mid-wicket to depart for 65. The next two batters were caught at mid-on and short mid-wicket to make it three in a row - but Morgan was not done there.

"I remember thinking after I got the hat-trick - I don't want to lose this game now. Then it just went crazy," said Morgan.

The next batter was caught to point to leave Surfers Paradise wobbling on 174-8. Morgan then needed no further help from his team-mates in the field, with the final two batters clean bowled.

"When I saw the stumps go back on the last ball I couldn't believe it, I've never seen anything like it," he said.

For reporter Garland, he had broken a golden rule of journalism by becoming part of the story. Not that he minded too much on this occasion.

"I mean all you can really do now is laugh about it," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "Always wanted to be part of history with sport somehow, didn't think it would be for this reason."

Incredibly, this is not the first time Morgan has been involved in some bowling heroics.

Writing on the club's Facebook page, Morgan's father Huw said: "A proud father here. Gareth won't tell you, but as a young bloke, he once took five wickets in an over! He didn't get six, because there was only five wickets left at the start of the over."

The most wickets taken in an over of professional cricket is five, which has been achieved on three occasions, Neil Wagner playing for Otago in 2011, Al-Amin Hossain for a Bangladesh Cricket Board XI in 2013 and Abhimanyu Mithun for Indian state side Karnataka in 2019.

Gumboot wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:04 am Great catch by Blundell!

Thor Sedan wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:12 am Sorry to be that guy - but does anyone have a working link?

My usual one in just playing football.

Kiwias wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:34 am Southee takes the last wicket with his first ball of the day.

All out for 310

Gumboot wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 4:33 am Are my eyes deceiving me, or is this stadium almost entirely empty?

Kiwias wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:40 am

Gumboot wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 4:33 am Are my eyes deceiving me, or is this stadium almost entirely empty?

It is very disappointing, as was this dismissal.

Kiwias wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:12 am Superb catch but an equally superb century by Kane, his fourth in consecutive tests.