Day 2 of the 5th Test between England and India and it turned out to be a very bitter sweet day for England pacer Stuart Broad. The hosts were looking for early wickets after India finished 338/7 at Stumps on Day 1 and after getting a few wickets, the tail started wagging and India started scoring some very important runs for the last wicket.
Batting at that time was India’s new Test captain Jasprit Bumrah along with Mohammed Siraj and the 84th over of the 1st innings will be one that India and England are both not going to forget any time soon. In fact, it will go down in Test cricket history itself as this over went on to become the most expensive single over in Test history!
Stuart Broad concedes most expensive over in Test cricket
Broad ran in to bowl and the over started with a boundary to fine leg, with Bumrah on strike. The bowler wouldn’t have been too happy with the second ball of the over as the bouncer flew over the batsman’s and wicket-keeper’s head for 5 wides. The re-bowled second ball was another short ball which flew off the top edge for six, while also being called a no-ball for overstepping.
The second ball had to be bowled yet again, and this was a full toss which Bumrah swung over mid-wicket for a boundary, with the over now reading 20 runs in just 2 balls. The next two balls both went to the fence again, getting the over to 28 runs in 4 balls before Bumrah smashed the fifth ball clean over long leg for six.
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34 runs in 5 balls and Broad finally found the yorker on the final ball, ending the over with 35 runs. Prior to this, the most expensive over in Test cricket history was just 28 runs and this happened on three different occasions, the batsmen being Brian Lara of West Indies, George Bailey of Australia, and Keshav Maharaj of South Africa.
Several years ago, a young Stuart Broad was smashed for six sixes in an over against India’s Yuvraj Singh at the 2007 T20 World Cup and all those memories would’ve come rushing back to him as he ran in to bowl the final ball of that over. Bumrah and co would be super happy though, as they put up a decent final wicket partnership and ended the 1st innings with 416 runs on the board.
Stuart Broad to Jasprit Bumrah – 4,4WD,6NB,4,4,4,6,1 – 35 runs off the over. Unbelievable stuff!
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) July 2, 2022
It was a bitter-sweet day for Broad as just a couple of overs prior to this one, he bowled a wicket maiden and reached the great milestone of 550 career Test wickets. He picked the wicket of Mohammed Shami to reach that milestone and just when you thought he could add to that tally, he was just taken apart by India’s number #10 batsman.
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