The final match of the Big Bash League (BBL) 2021-22 was played between Perth Scorchers and Sydney Sixers where the last ball of the first innings saw a sight that is not often seen as the umpire tumbled over. After watching such a scene, even the players could not stop their laughter.
In fact, it happened that on the last ball of the last over of the Perth Scorchers’ innings, the batsman ran for two runs and the non-striker’s end was thrown from deep so fast that the umpire started running back to avoid that throw and during this time his The balance got upset.
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Then the umpire falls down and his head also hits the ground. Thankfully he didn’t get very serious injuries. However, at the end of such a funny end of innings, the players of the fielding team were seen laughing at the umpire.
Here is the video of the incident:
Backpedal, backpedal … watch out 🙈 #BBL11 pic.twitter.com/rmbR75dC5q
— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) January 28, 2022
Let us tell you that the Sydney Sixers got a target of 172 runs to become the champion of BBL once again. In such a situation, it will be interesting to see whether the Scorchers’ bowlers will be able to defend this target. Eventually, Perth Scorchers won the match by a huge margin of 79 runs.
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Perth Scorchers Playing XI: Josh Inglis (wk), Kurtis Patterson, Mitchell Marsh, Colin Munro, Ashton Turner (c), Laurie Evans, Ashton Agar, Jhye Richardson, Andrew Tye, Jason Behrendorff, Peter Hatzoglou
Sydney Sixers Playing XI: Hayden Kerr, Nicholas Bertus, Daniel Hughes, Moises Henriques (c), Daniel Christian, Sean Abbott, Ben Dwarshuis, Jay Lenton (wk), Jackson Bird, Nathan Lyon, Steve OKeefe, Justin Avendano