WATCH: WI openers smash legend Jhulan Goswami for five fours in an over
India’s legendary fast-bowler Jhulan Goswami very rarely errs with her lines and lengths. Known for her immaculate control and consistency, Goswami has a career economy rate of 3.34 in ODIs across 197 matches with 248 wickets.
The Indian women’s spearhead has always been a banker for her side, be it to make inroads or to put a tight leash on run-scoring. But on Saturday (March 12), even she had her rarest of rare instances of being hit on both sides of the wicket in a mighty impressive assault against the Indian stalwart.
That assault was led by West Indies openers Deandra Dottin and Hayley Matthews in an ICC Women’s ODI World Cup league encounter at the Seddon Park in Hamilton. Dottin and Matthews combined to smash the great Jhulan Goswami for an expensive over of 21 runs, featuring five boundaries.
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The usually disciplined Jhulan Goswami was taken for a 21-run over against West Indies.
Jhulan Goswami hit for five fours in a rare bad over by the legend
The expensive over was the fifth of the West Indies innings in a run-chase of India’s daunting 317/8 in the all-important World Cup encounter in Hamilton. Jhulan Goswami got smashed for five fours in a rare over where she failed to execute it right at any stage, getting hit on both sides of the wicket.
The over began with Matthews smashing a short-pitched delivery from Goswami through the on-side for a four, before screaming the next one – an attempted full-ball outside off-stump – for one more boundary. She then dispatched the third ball of the over for an on-drive past the diving Goswami.
A single nudged through the deep fine-leg region would’ve then felt like a respite for Goswami, whose misery, however, didn’t end there as she was hammered off the final two deliveries of the over by Dottin. Trying to find some swing off the full-length region, Goswami ended up pitching two balls into the radar of an aggressive Dottin, who blazed her willow once to mid-on and then to the mid-off region.
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That over must have dented the Indian spirits somewhat as their ace quick Jhulan Goswami was taken to all parts with ease by the two in-form West Indies batters. This was, however, Goswami’s first real bad over of the tournament. Playing against Pakistan and New Zealand previously, she delivered spells of 2/26 and 1/41, respectively.
