When Sussex’s Ollie Robinson got here on to bowl towards Leicestershire’s No.8 batter Louis Kimber little did the England bowler know he would go down within the report books for conceding 43 runs in an over.
After Sussex had declared their second innings on 6-296 to publish a goal of 464, Leicestershire had been on the ropes at 6-144 on Wednesday when Kimber walked in and minimize free, dealing in boundaries to deliver up his 50 very quickly.
Kimber was on 72 when Robinson bowled the 59th over the place the batter smashed two sixes and 6 boundaries, whereas Robinson additionally overstepped thrice.
No balls in county cricket carry a two-run penalty, leading to a really costly nine-ball over.
He introduced up his century with a boundary and though Robinson tried to alter the angle by coming across the wicket, Kimber couldn’t be stopped as he broke the report for essentially the most runs off an over within the County Championship’s 134-year historical past.
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Kimber, who was not even on the crease firstly of the day’s play, went into lunch unbeaten on 191 off simply 92 deliveries with Leicestershire needing 89 runs to win.
The Leicestershire tailender ended up clubbing an unimaginable 20 fours and 21 sixes, earlier than chopping on for 243 off Australian seamer Nathan McAndrew.
The ultimate wicket fated Kimber’s aspect to an agonisingly shut defeat as, regardless of the carnage, Leicestershire misplaced by 18 runs.
Remarkably, Robinson wasn’t the one Englishman to notch undesirable bowling feats in the identical week. Shoaib Bashir had conceded 38 runs in an over in a county match between Surrey and Worcestershire simply two days earlier and he’ll in all probability thank his England teammate for erasing his title from the report books.
Bashir, who solely joined Worcestershire on mortgage from Somerset earlier this month, had toiled away via 37 overs for 2-137 earlier than he tried to wrap up Surrey’s innings halfway via the afternoon session.
With Surrey on 9-437, Dan Lawrence had different concepts and launched two luxurious maximums down the bottom earlier than a 3rd was carried over the boundary rope, which left Bashir hunched over in disbelief.
Worst was to comply with for the rookie off-spinner, who impressed throughout England’s 4-1 collection defeat in India, when a pair of floated-up deliveries had been additionally swatted away by Lawrence.
The Surrey batter was denied a spot within the historical past books when the sixth ball of Bashir’s over was despatched down for 5 wides.
Bashir, in solely his twelfth first-class match, overstepped along with his subsequent supply, whereas Lawrence took solely a single earlier than the carnage ended when Aussie Dan Worrall nobly blocked out the final ball of a 38-run over.
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