Watch: Rare sight! Spinner Callum Parkinson flattens two stumps in the Vitality Blast game

Leicestershire left-arm spinner Callum Parkinson unveiled a rare sight, uprooting the two stumps in a bowled dismissal during a T20 Blast game on Tuesday (June 21). 

Playing against Nottinghamshire in a North Group encounter at Trent Bridge, Parkinson got two of the three sticks rattled with a skiddy, accurate straight ball that the opposition batter missed. 

The Leicester spinner had Nott’s opening batter Joe Clarke out attempting a wide slog through the on-side. The shot may have been on to a normal orthodox spin from the left-arm spinner, but Callum Parkinson gauged the batter’s intent early and fired in a straight one that Clarke was too late to respond to. 

Callum Parkinson’s rare dismissal, two stumps shattered!!!

More than the wicket, though, it was the nature in which the dismissal was held that became eye-catching for the fans witnessing the T20 Blast match. In a rarest of rare sight, a spinner had two stumps uprooted from the turf off his bowling. 

Most spinners hover around a speed, even at their quickest, where the ball brushes the stumps for a bowled dismissal or at best shatter one of the sticks out of its normal position. 

In this instance, Callum Parkinson took out two of the three sticks behind the batter’s stance after Clarke made a meal of his attempted shot down the leg side.

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The official Twitter handle of the Vitality T20 Blast made the point to highlight the exceptional aspect of the dismissal and shared a clip of the same with fans.

Not one, but ✌️ stumps knocked out the ground by Callum Parkinson ✨

Watch LIVE 👉 https://t.co/dBwrPTNEbW#Blast22 pic.twitter.com/C1F7bS0YAG

— Vitality Blast (@VitalityBlast) June 21, 2022

In the clip, one can see that a skiddy arm-ball from Callum Parkinson bumped onto the middle stump after Clarke completely missed his intended boundary stroke down the leg-side. 

While the right-hander’s off-stump stayed intact in its original position, the middle and the leg stumps were seen falling onto the turf at the famous Trent Bridge ground in England. 

Parkinson has been an experienced cricketer at the county circuit, with his domestic T20 record featuring 90 wickets from 80 innings with a respectable economy rate of 7.55. 

He has been in terrific form in the ongoing T20 Blast, taking 17 wickets from 12 matches at 7.25 runs an over.