The ninth edition of Australia’s popular T20 tournament, Big Bash League (BBL), started on Tuesday (December 17).
The opening match of the BBL|05 was played between Sydney Thunder (SYT) and Brisbane Heat (BRH) at The Ga♈bba in Brisbane.
Thunder defeated Heat by 29 runs and got their BBL ca🍌mpaign off to a flyer.🌱 Skipper Callum Ferguson led from the front as he scored an unbeaten 73 off 44 balls.
Daniel Sams’ ‘moon ball’
There were exciting moments in the match, but one moment caught everyone’s attention. When Thunder’s frontline bowler Daniel Sams came to bowl the very first over of the innings, he did something which was grabbed in the eyes of fans and commentators.
Sams tried to bowl a slower delivery, but ♓the moment he released the ball, it got slip out of his han💦ds, and it went straight into the air, landing near the square-leg umpire.
This led the commentators and crowd to go for the laughing ride. Sams couldn’t resist himself from smiling as well.
Umm, what? Daniel Sa🅷ms almost bowled this ball out of th꧂e circle completely 😑 |
— KFC Big Bash League (@BBL)
Sams 🔥delivery went viral on social media as well, and people took to Twitter to react at the unusual incident.
Here are some best tweets:
Daniel Sams releasing guns!
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra)
A moving Gabba ♏tribute to Steve Harmison by Daniel Sams.
— Patrick Noone (@patnoonecricket)
At Daniel Sams
— Casual Dan (@suthodan)
"Hit that one!" 😅
That one didn't quite come out of the hand like Daniel Sams had planned!
— News Cricket (@NewsCorpCricket)
Is this the widest delivery you've ever seen? 😂
Daniel Sams almost bowled his delivery to the boundary…
— Cricket on TNT Sports (@cricketontnt)
Meanwhile, Chris Lynn lost the first game under his leadership, but he did create a record. He became the l🦂eading run-scorer in the history of BBL when he hit Chris Tremain for a maximum.
Lynn had 1945 runs to his name when he 🦂started the innings, just two behind Michael Klinger.
