Kingston [Jamaica], July 21 (ANI): Mitchell Owen, who thrived in his dream debut for Australia, was once worried extra about his performance with the ball than the bat, no matter batting at wide variety six, an strange territory for him during the first T201 towards the West Indies at Sabrina Park.
together with his swashbuckling display with the bat, Owen joined the special club of Ricky Ponting and David Warner to tonk a fifty on T201 debut.
He pummelled 50 in 27 deliveries to steer Australia to a three-wicket win to go 1-0 up inside the collection.
before his batting masterclass, he removed the West Indies in-structure captain Shai wish at the 0.33 ball of his debut to scalp his maiden T201 wicket. The wicket sparked a collapse because the Caribbean side managed just seven runs and lost 4 wickets in the ultimate 16 deliveries.
“I notion….he smacked me for 6 first ball. however i was lucky Shai hit one up the shoot and got my first wicket. i used to be quite nervous going for walks in the ones first six balls, but fantastic to get it out of the way,” Owen said after the match, as quoted from ESPNcricinfo.
Owen, who mostly features at the top order, weaved magic with the bat and struck a 1/2-century in the middle order, overcoming his beyond nightmares. In sixteen career T20 innings batting from wide variety 3 to 8, Owen controlled simply 174 runs at 14.50, with a strike-rate of 148.71, with 34 being his highest score.
earlier than Sunday, he had only batted twice at the number 6 spot. despite the lack of numbers on his facet, Owen remained unperturbed in opposition to spinners regardless of 5 guys guarding the boundary rope.
“I definitely attempted not to take a look at the sector too much and just kind of react to every ball, which I suppose held me in excellent stead. manifestly, it is a bit bit different, but I think my system, my game format, wasn’t too unique to beginning the batting coming in at six,” he stated.
“We needed to strike at 10s or nines once I got here out. So I nevertheless needed to be quality and tremendous. If I took my time to kind of try to get into innings, I feel like I kind of dig myself a hollow. So, yeah, just attempt to get after them from ball one,” Owen added.
Owen smoked the ball into the stands for three sixes in 4 balls off left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein in the twelfth over. He reeled in two sixes off Andre Russell and one off Alzarri Joseph. He stitched an eighty-run partnership with Cameron green and prompt Australia to victory after dwindling at 78/four inside the 9th over.
“It used to be quite a few amusing. it is the primary time i have been on the identical side as Greeny. So it was once fine to be out there with him and make contributions to a pretty good partnership. We kept each different excellent and calm and just stuck to our tactics,” Owen stated. (ANI)
